Taking population seriously
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Taking population seriously
Earthscan, 1989
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内容説明
Is a "population explosion" really overwhelming the planet? Frances Moore Lappe and Rachel Schurman examine the social and economic causes which affect fertility and choices about reproduction. In seeking solutions to the "population problem", they show how for many people large families provide the only form of security; they look at the Third World countries which have successfully reduced fertility rates by giving women, in particular, financial and social alternatives to child-bearing. If we are to take population seriously we must stop thinking simply in terms of controlling births and deal with the causes of the "opoulation explosion". This is the only way the "missing piece" can be fitted into the population puzzle. The authors - Frances Moore Lappe is the founder, with Joseph Collins, of the Institute for Food and Development. Rachel Schurman is co-author (with Frances Moore Lappe and Kevin Danaher) of the Food First book "Betraying the National Interest".
目次
- The population debate - what set off the population explosion, population - what's the problem
- a power-structures perspective - children - poor people's source of power, when many babies die, women - powerlessness and high birth rates, the fertility consequences of son preference, not only women are made powerless, summarizing the power-structures perspective
- the debate about solutions - the consequenes of focusing narrowly on family planning, how far can birth control alone take us, can reducing population growth alleviate hunger and other social problems, solutions from the power-structures perspective
- reflections and implications for action - adding the missing peice to the population puzzle, a country's poverty is no excuse, broadening the vision, effective responses to the population problem.
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