[health-vn] Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times

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From: "SSexton, The Corner House" <sarahsexton at gn.apc.org>
Date: 18 August 2010 5:02:13 AM PDT
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Subject: PHM-Exch> Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times

NEW BOOK

Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times

"This book is a must read for all those who are concerned about the lives of poor women. This remarkable collection of essays shows us, through case studies from across the world, how the Cairo Conference's call for reproductive rights have been subverted by neo-liberal economic policies to promote fertility control at the cost of women's health."
Brinda Karat, Member of Parliament (India) and women's rights activist.

"In the current climate when overpopulation arguments are again prominent, this book is essential reading for health and women's rights activists and indeed policy-makers. It explores how the promises of reproductive health and rights at the ICPD in Cairo in 1994 were hollowed out by neo-liberalism. Both market fundamentalism and religious fundamentalism took their toll."
Shabana Azmi, Actor, former member, Population Commission, and women's rights activist 


The decennial International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) that took place in Cairo in 1994 has been described as historic and revolutionary. It rejected top-down demographically driven population control programs, emphasizing instead reproductive health and rights for women, and for men. 

Markets and Malthus explores the ideas and institutions that were framed at the ICPD and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the line. Why were Third World feminists profoundly critical of the Cairo consensus and process? How has the health of people around the world been affected by neo-liberal economic policies? What have these meant for women's rights, including reproductive rights? 

The book presents detailed case studies from various countries ranging from India and China, to Egypt, Tanzania, Uganda and across Africa to Argentina, Peru and throughout Latin America, as well as overarching themed essays. From the politics of abortion and immigration to rising levels of fundamentalist violence and sex selective abortions, the volume explores a range of issues from several vantage points. It offers startling new insights into these issues by linking them to neo-liberal economic policies that have profoundly shaped health policies globally. 

This book is essential reading for students of gender studies, public health and demography, as well as policy-makers and activists. 


CONTENTS
--Introduction: Population, Health and Gender in Neo-liberal Times, by MOHAN RAO and SARAH SEXTON

--A Decade and More after Cairo: Women?s Health in a Free Market Economy, by SARAH SEXTON and SUMATI NAIR 

--Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means: National Security, 'Environmental Conflict' and the Making of the Cairo Consensus, by BETSY HARTMANN

--The Politics of Abortion: A Note, by MARLENE FRIED

--An Entangled Skein: Neo-Malthusianisms in Neo-liberal Times, by MOHAN RAO

--Neo-liberal Development and Reproductive Health in India: The Making of the Personal and the Political, by RACHEL SIMON-KUMAR

--A Decade after Cairo in Latin America: An Overview, by MARTHA ROSENBERG

--Redefining and Medicalizing Population Policies : NGOs and their Innovative Contributions to the Post Cairo Agenda, by SUSANNE SCHULTZ

--Structural Adjustment, Impotence and Family Planning: Men?s Voices in Egypt, by KAMRAN ASDAR ALI

--What has Happened in Africa since Cairo?, by MEREDETH TURSHEN

--Reproductive Health, Family Planning and HIV/AIDS: Dangers of (Dis) Integration in Tanzania and Uganda, by LISA ANN RICHEY

--China?s Population Policies: Engendered Biopolitics, the One-child Norm and Masculinisation of Child Sex Ratios, by SUSAN GREENHALGH


Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times
edited by
Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and 
Sarah Sexton, The Corner House, UK

2010 / 368 pages / Cloth: 978-81-321-0297-7

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Markets and Malthus
Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times 
Edited by
Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and
Sarah Sexton, The Corner House, UK

This book is a must read for all those who are concerned about the lives of poor women. This remarkable collection of essays shows us, through case studies from across the world, how the Cairo Conference's call for reproductive rights have been subverted by neo-liberal economic policies to promote fertility control at the cost of women's health.

Brinda Karat
Member of Parliament (India) and women's rights activist

In the current climate when overpopulation arguments are again prominent, this book is essential reading for health and women's rights activists and indeed policy-makers. It explores how the promises of reproductive health and rights at the ICPD in Cairo in 1994 were hollowed out by neo-liberalism. Both market fundamentalism and religious fundamentalism took their toll.

Shabana Azmi
Actor, former member, Population Commission, and women's rights activist

Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times explores the ideas and institutions that were framed at the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the line. Why were Third World feminists profoundly critical of the Cairo consensus and process? How has the health of people around the world been affected by neo-liberal economic policies? What have these meant for women's rights, including reproductive rights?

The book presents detailed case studies from various countries ranging from India and China, to Egypt, Tanzania, Uganda and across Africa to Argentina, Peru and throughout Latin America, as well as overarching themed essays. From the politics of abortion and immigration to rising levels of fundamentalist violence and sex selective abortions, the volume explores a range of issues from several vantage points. It offers startling new insights into these issues by linking them to neo-liberal economic policies that have profoundly shaped health policies globally. This book is essential reading for students of gender studies, public health and demography, as well as policy-makers and activists.
2010 / 368 pages / Cloth: 978-81-321-0297-7

CONTENTS
Introduction: Population, Health and Gender in Neo-liberal Times MOHAN RAO and SARAH SEXTON / A Decade and More after Cairo: Women’s Health in a Free Market Economy SARAH SEXTON and SUMATI NAIR / Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means: National Security, ‘Environmental Conflict’ and the Making of the Cairo Consensus BETSY HARTMANN / The Politics of Abortion: A Note MARLENE FRIED / An Entangled Skein: Neo-Malthusianisms in Neo-liberal Times MOHAN RAO / Neo-liberal Development and Reproductive Health in India: The Making of the Personal and the Political RACHEL SIMON-KUMAR / A Decade after Cairo in Latin America: An Overview MARTHA ROSENBERG / Redefining and Medicalizing Population Policies : NGOs and their Innovative Contributions to the Post Cairo Agenda SUSANNE SCHULTZ / Structural Adjustment, Impotence and Family Planning: Men’s Voices in Egypt KAMRAN ASDAR ALI / What has Happened in Africa since Cairo? MEREDETH TURSHEN / Reproductive Health, Family Planning and HIV/AIDS: Dangers of (Dis) Integration in Tanzania and Uganda LISA ANN RICHEY / China’s Population Policies: Engendered Biopolitics, the One-child Norm and Masculinisation of Child Sex Ratios SUSAN GREENHALGH / Index
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