
Reproduction in an African city today
Decisions, choices and opportunities in Maputo, Mozambique
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Reproduction in an African city today
Decisions, choices and opportunities in Maputo, Mozambique
About this book
Sub-Saharan Africa is considered the last region in the world where women still give birth to presumably too many children. However, within large cities such as Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, the average number of children per woman varies greatly. What is extraordinary, as this book shows, is that childbearing is a social action. Parenting allows one to consider different action alternatives, or rather, opportunities to act. These actions are not the same for everyone in different contexts. The book highlights that macro level socio- demographic changes, namely intraurban reproductive disparities are brought up by micro level (individual) actions. Rogers J. M. Hansine is lecturer and researcher in the Geography department of the Eduardo Mondlane University in the city of Maputo, Mozambique.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of illustrations, List of illustrations
- 1. Introductory Material
- 2. Human Reproduction: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
- 3. Methodological Approach
- 4. Empirical Material
- 5. Urban life-styles and reproduction in Maputo
- 6. Explaining the intraurban reproductive choice disparities
- 7. Towards a typology of urban reproductive choices
- 8. Conclusions, implications, and agenda for future research
- References
- Appendices