Table of Contents
Introduction, Caroline Bledsoe, Jane I. Guyer, and Susana LernerPart I Overview1. Male Fertility Trends in Industrial Countries: Theories in search of some evidence, David Coleman2. Traditions of Studying Paternity in Social Anthropology, Jane I. GuyerPart II Shaping Male Reproductive Culture3. The Seeds of Man: Ethnological Notes on Male Sexuality and Fecundity among the Maya, Mario Umberto Ruiz4. Making 'Responsible' Men: Planning the Family in Egypt, Kamran Asdar Ali5. Male Protagonists in the 'Commercialization' of Aspects of the Female Life Cycle in Ghana, John Anarfi and Clara FayorseyPart III Men in Multiple Unions6. Men, Polygyny, and Fertility over the Life Course in sub-Saharan Africa, Ann Blanc and Anastasia Gage7. Male Nuptiality and Male Fertility among the Qing Nobility: Polygyny or Serial Monogamy?, James Lee and Wang Feng8. Dimensions of Sexuality among Nigerian Men: Implications for Fertility and Reproductive Health, Nosa OrobatonPart IV Conundrums of Entry into Fatherhood9. 'Someone to Take my Place': Fertility and the Male Life Course among Coastal Boiken, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, Philip Setel10. Fatherhood in East and West Germany: Results of the German Family and Fertility Survey, Katherina Pohl11. Fathers and Families in Contemporary Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy, Pau Miret GamundiPart V Fatherhood of Which Children?12. Demographic Patterns of Motherhood and Fatherhood in France, Laurent Toulemon and Evelyn Lapierre-Adamcyk13. Men, Parenthood, and Divorce in the Era of the Second Demographic Transition, Frances Goldscheider, Pamela Webster, and Gayle Kaufman14. Male Fertility as a Lifetime of Relationships: Contextualizing Men's Biological Reproduction in Botswana, Nicholas TownsendIndexContributors
