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The Cairo Consensus

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In the early 1990s international population policy faced a crisis-it was being attacked from the left and the right, from inside and outside, for a range of failings-of ethics, fact, method, and vision. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo, provided a new policy consensus that helped to overcome this crisis. Starting from the question of how the transition from "population control" to "women's empowerment" was formulated as an international consensus, The Cairo Consensus maps the discourses, technical practices, and institutional practices that made this transition possible and stable. Demographic surveys in particular emerge as a crucial, though often overlooked, mechanism for policy production and stability. Using detailed empirical material, including over 30 interviews, combined with cutting edge social and political theory, Saul Halfon offers a new look at population policy that will interest scholars of science and technology, international studies, women's studies, development studies, and post-colonial theory.

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ISBN: 9780739111765
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Author: Saul E Halfon
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 261 pages
Genres: Society and culture: general
Feminism and feminist theory
Gender studies: women and girls
Gender studies, gender groups
Social research and statistics
Population and demography
Sociology: family and relationships