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| Other authors / contributors: | Banja, Fatoumatta.
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| ISBN: | 9780226058504
0226058506
0226058514
9780226058511
0226058522
9780226058528
9786612932823
6612932821
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.
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English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as continge.
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| Other form: | Print version: Bledsoe, Caroline H. Contingent lives. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 0226058514
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