In most countries, educated women have fewer children and have them later than uneducated women. In Uncertain Honor, 1997 IDRF Fellow Jennifer Johnson-Hanks argues that this demographic fact has social causes by offering a rich case study of contraception, abortion, and informal adoption among educated, ethnic Beti women in southern Cameroon. Buy from Amazon.

Publication Details

Title
Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis
Authors
Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer
Publisher
University of Chicago / University of Chicago Press
Publish Date
2006
ISBN
978-0226401812
Citation
Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer, Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis (University of Chicago / University of Chicago Press, 2006).

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