The politics of reproduction - a window on social change, W.Penn Handwerker; the politics of reproductive biology - exclusionary policies in the United States, Rose Jones; the politics of obstetric care - the Inuit experience, John O'Neill and Patricia A.Kaufert; the politics of birth - cultural dimensions of pain, virtue and control among the Bariba of Benin, Carolyn Sargent; the politics of children - fosterage and the social management of fertility among the Mende of the Sierra Leone, Caroline H.Bledsoe; the politics of below-replacement fertility - policy and power in Hungary, Jeanne M.Simonelli; the politics of parenthood - responsibility, freedom and fairness in American reproductive choice, Catherine L.Leone; the politics of choice - abortion as insurrection, Warren M.Hern; the politics of adolescent pregnancy - turf and teens in Louisiana, Martha C.Ward; the politics of AIDS, condoms and heterosexual relations in Africa - recent evidence from the local print media, Caroline H.Bledsoe; the international politics of family planning - sterilization and human rights in Bangladesh, Barbara Pillsbury.
