PHM-Exch> Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times

[SSexton, The Corner House]

NEW BOOK

*Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times*

"This book is a must read for all those who are concerned about the 
lives of poor women. This remarkable collection of essays shows us, 
through case studies from across the world, how the Cairo Conference's 
call for reproductive rights have been subverted by neo-liberal economic 
policies to promote fertility control at the cost of women's health."
Brinda Karat, Member of Parliament (India) and women's rights activist.

"In the current climate when overpopulation arguments are again 
prominent, this book is essential reading for health and women's rights 
activists and indeed policy-makers. It explores how the promises of 
reproductive health and rights at the ICPD in Cairo in 1994 were 
hollowed out by neo-liberalism. Both market fundamentalism and religious 
fundamentalism took their toll."
Shabana Azmi, Actor, former member, Population Commission, and women's 
rights activist


The decennial International Conference on Population and Development 
(ICPD) that took place in Cairo in 1994 has been described as historic 
and revolutionary. It rejected top-down demographically driven 
population control programs, emphasizing instead reproductive health and 
rights for women, and for men.

*Markets and Malthus *explores the ideas and institutions that were 
framed at the ICPD and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the 
line. Why were Third World feminists profoundly critical of the Cairo 
consensus and process? How has the health of people around the world 
been affected by neo-liberal economic policies? What have these meant 
for women's rights, including reproductive rights?

The book presents detailed case studies from various countries ranging 
from India and China, to Egypt, Tanzania, Uganda and across Africa to 
Argentina, Peru and throughout Latin America, as well as overarching 
themed essays. From the politics of abortion and immigration to rising 
levels of fundamentalist violence and sex selective abortions, the 
volume explores a range of issues from several vantage points. It offers 
startling new insights into these issues by linking them to neo-liberal 
economic policies that have profoundly shaped health policies globally.

This book is essential reading for students of gender studies, public 
health and demography, as well as policy-makers and activists.


CONTENTS
--Introduction: Population, Health and Gender in Neo-liberal Times, by 
MOHAN RAO and SARAH SEXTON

--A Decade and More after Cairo: Women?s Health in a Free Market 
Economy, by SARAH SEXTON and SUMATI NAIR

--Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means: National Security, 'Environmental 
Conflict' and the Making of the Cairo Consensus, by BETSY HARTMANN

--The Politics of Abortion: A Note, by MARLENE FRIED

--An Entangled Skein: Neo-Malthusianisms in Neo-liberal Times, by MOHAN RAO

--Neo-liberal Development and Reproductive Health in India: The Making 
of the Personal and the Political, by RACHEL SIMON-KUMAR

--A Decade after Cairo in Latin America: An Overview, by MARTHA ROSENBERG

--Redefining and Medicalizing Population Policies : NGOs and their 
Innovative Contributions to the Post Cairo Agenda, by SUSANNE SCHULTZ

--Structural Adjustment, Impotence and Family Planning: Men?s Voices in 
Egypt, by KAMRAN ASDAR ALI

--What has Happened in Africa since Cairo?, by MEREDETH TURSHEN

--Reproductive Health, Family Planning and HIV/AIDS: Dangers of (Dis) 
Integration in Tanzania and Uganda, by LISA ANN RICHEY

--China?s Population Policies: Engendered Biopolitics, the One-child 
Norm and Masculinisation of Child Sex Ratios, by SUSAN GREENHALGH


*Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times*
edited by
Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and
Sarah Sexton, The Corner House, UK

2010 / 368 pages / Cloth: 978-81-321-0297-7

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