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Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa by Caroline H. Bledsoe

Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa

Caroline H. Bledsoe

416 pages hardcover

3 editions

nonfiction sociology
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Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason--to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic...

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