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NEW BOOK<br>
<br>
<b>Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal
Times</b><br>
<br>
"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."<br>
Brinda Karat, Member of Parliament (India) and women's rights activist.<br>
<br>
"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."<br>
Shabana Azmi, Actor, former member, Population Commission, and women's
rights activist
<br>
<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
<b>Markets and Malthus </b>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?
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
This book is essential reading for students of gender studies, public
health and demography, as well as policy-makers and activists.
<br>
<br>
<br>
CONTENTS<br>
--Introduction: Population, Health and Gender in Neo-liberal Times, by
MOHAN
RAO and SARAH SEXTON<br>
<br>
--A Decade and More after Cairo: Women?s Health
in a Free Market Economy, by SARAH SEXTON and SUMATI NAIR <br>
<br>
--Liberal
Ends, Illiberal Means: National Security, 'Environmental Conflict' and
the Making of the Cairo Consensus, by BETSY HARTMANN<br>
<br>
--The Politics of
Abortion: A Note, by MARLENE FRIED<br>
<br>
--An Entangled Skein:
Neo-Malthusianisms in Neo-liberal Times, by MOHAN RAO<br>
<br>
--Neo-liberal
Development and Reproductive Health in India: The Making of the
Personal
and the Political, by RACHEL SIMON-KUMAR<br>
<br>
--A Decade after Cairo in Latin
America: An Overview, by MARTHA ROSENBERG<br>
<br>
--Redefining and Medicalizing
Population Policies : NGOs and their Innovative Contributions to the
Post Cairo Agenda, by SUSANNE SCHULTZ<br>
<br>
--Structural Adjustment, Impotence
and Family Planning: Men?s Voices in Egypt, by KAMRAN ASDAR ALI<br>
<br>
--What has
Happened in Africa since Cairo?, by MEREDETH TURSHEN<br>
<br>
--Reproductive
Health, Family Planning and HIV/AIDS: Dangers of (Dis) Integration in
Tanzania and Uganda, by LISA ANN RICHEY<br>
<br>
--China?s Population Policies:
Engendered Biopolitics, the One-child Norm and Masculinisation of Child
Sex Ratios, by SUSAN GREENHALGH<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal
Times</b><br>
edited by<br>
Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and <br>
Sarah Sexton, The Corner House, UK<br>
<br>
2010 / 368 pages / Cloth: 978-81-321-0297-7<br>
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