Fertility and Familial Power Relations: Procreation in South IndiaPsychology Press, 2001 - 239 pages Describes and analyses the corollaries of declining fertility in Southern India to discover how familial and gender relations are affected by the new situation of women giving birth only to 2-3 children. |
Contents
Children as Consumers | 29 |
4 | 67 |
6 | 108 |
7 | 124 |
Quantitative Data on Fertility in South India | 206 |
219 | |
235 | |
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Page 220 - The determinants of fertility decline in rural South India.' In Tim Dyson and Nigel Crook (eds), India's Demography: Essays on the Contemporary Population.