List of Contributors

Introduction

Caroline Bledsoe

Jane I. Guyer

Susana Lerner

Part I Overviews

Male Fertility Trends in Industrial Countries: Theories in Search of Some Evidence

David A. Coleman

Traditions of Studying Paternity in Social Anthropology

Jane I. Guyer

Part II Shaping Male Reproductive Culture

The Seeds of Man: Ethnological Notes on Male Sexuality and Fecundity among the Maya

Mario Humberto Ruz

Making `Responsible' Men: Planning the Family in Egypt

Kamran Asdar Ali

Male Protagonists in the `Commercialization' of Aspects of the Female Life-Cycle in Ghana

John K. Anarfi

Clara Korkor Fayorsey

Part III Men in Multiple Unions

Men, Polygyny, and Fertility Over the Life-Course in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ann K. Blanc

Anastasia J. Gage

Male Nuptiality and Male Fertility among the Qing Nobility: Polygyny or Serial Monogamy?

James Lee

Wang Feng

Dimensions of Sexuality among Nigerian Men: Implications for Fertility and Reproductive Health

Nosa Orobaton

Part IV Conundrums of Entry into Fatherhood

`Someone to Take My Place': Fertility and the Male Life-Course among Coastal Boiken, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

Philip Setel

Fatherhood in East and West Germany: Results of the German Family and Fertility Survey

Katharina Pohl

Fathers and Families in Contemporary Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy

Pau Miret-Gamundi

Part V Fatherhood of Which Children?

Demographic Patterns of Motherhood and Fatherhood in France

Laurent Toulemon

Evelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk

Men, Parenthood, and Divorce in the Era of the Second Demographic Transition

Frances K. Goldscheider

Pamela Webster

Gayle Kaufman

Male Fertility as a Lifetime of Relationships: Contextualizing Men's Biological Reproduction in Botswana

Nicholas W. Townsend

Appendix: Complete List of Papers and Participants in the Seminar

Index