International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes

This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of gender in demography, addressing the many different influences of gender that arise from or influence demographic processes.  It collects in one volume the key issues and perspectives

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Nancy E. Riley · Jan Brunson Editors

International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes

International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes

International Handbooks of Population

Volume 8

Series Editor Dudley L. Poston, Jr. Professor of Sociology, George T. & Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts Director, Asian Studies Program Texas A&M University ACAD Bldg. 425B (office) College Station, Texas 77843-4351, USA The International Handbooks of Population offer up-to-date scholarly summaries and sources of information on the major subject areas and issues of demography and population. Each handbook examines its particular subject area in depth, providing timely, accessible coverage of its full scale and scope, discusses substantive contributions for deeper understanding, and provides reliable guidance on the direction of future developments. Volumes will explore topics of vital interest: Population Aging, Poverty, Mortality, Family Demography, Migration, Race and Ethnic Demography and more. Each volume will provide a state-of-the-art treatment of its respective area. The series will quickly prove useful to a broad audience including demographers, practitioners and scholars across a range of disciplines.

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Nancy E. Riley  •  Jan Brunson Editors

International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes

Editors Nancy E. Riley Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME, USA

Jan Brunson Department of Anthropology University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Honolulu, HI, USA

ISSN 1877-9204     ISSN 2215-1877 (electronic) International Handbooks of Population ISBN 978-94-024-1288-8    ISBN 978-94-024-1290-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1290-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018936750 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to juri