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List of Tables

List of Contributors

Part I Introduction

Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Laying the Groundwork

Harriet B. Presser

Gita Sen

Part II Theoretical Perspectives on Women's Empowerment

Empowering Women for Reproductive Rights

Gita Sen

Srilatha Batliwala

Conceptualizing Women's Empowerment in Countries of the North

Paula England

Part III Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health and the Demographic Imagination

Ruth Dixon-Mueller

Adrienne Germain

Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The Making of Health Policy in South Africa

Barbara Klugman

Empowerment of Women in Egypt and links to the Survival and Health of Their Infants

Sunita Kishor

Part IV Women's Empowerment and Socio-Demographic Processes

The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child Well-Being: A Review of Concepts, Issues, and Evidence in a Post-Cairo Context

John Hobcraft

Female Empowerment and Adolescent Demographic Behaviour

Anastasia J. Gage

Women's Autonomy in Rural India: Its Dimensions, Determinants, and the Influence of Context

Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

The Role of Gender Context in Shaping Reproductive Behaviour in Nigeria

Mary M. Kritz

Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye

Douglas T. Gurak

Economic Restructuring, Women's Work, and Autonomy in Mexico

Brigida Garcia

Migration and Women's Empowerment

Graeme Hugo

Women's Empowerment, Marriage Postponement, and Gender Relations in Japan: An Intergenerational Perspective

Noriko O. Tsuya

Part V Future Directions for Population Policy

Population Policy and Women's Empowerment: Challenges and Opportunities

Carmen Barroso

Jodi L. Jacobson

Appendix: Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus (reprint of paper published in Population and Development Review)

Harriet B. Presser

Index