International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes

Introduction: Nancy E. Riley and Jan Brunson.- Methodology and Measurement: 1 Measuring Gender in the Context of Demographic Change: Nancy E. Riley and Deborah S. DeGraff.- 2 Women, Biopower and the Making of Demographic Knowledge: India's Demographic and Health Survey : Nilanjana Chatterjee and Nancy E. Riley.- 3 Gender in the Investigation and Politics of 'Low' Fertility: Leslie King.- Fertility & Infertility: 4 Reproduction in Retrospective, Or What's All the Fuss over Low Fertility?: Elizabeth L. Krause.- 5 Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Making and Unmaking of Kin in Iran: Transformation or Variation on a Theme? : Soraya Tremayne .- 6 Unconceived Territory: Involuntary Childlessness and Infertility among Women in the United States: Kristin J. Wilson.- 7 Surrogacy and the Gendered Contexts of Infertility Management in India:Holly Donahue Singh.- 8 Stratified Reproduction : Nancy E. Riley.- Health, Morbidity, & Mortality: 9 Maternal health in Nepal and Other Low-income Countries: Causes, Contexts, and Future Directions: Jan Brunson.- 10 When the Wages of sin is Death: Sexual Stigma and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks.- 11 Gender and HIV: Evidence from Anthropological Demography in Nigeria: Daniel Jordan Smith.- Migration & Displacement: 12 Gender and Migration: Evidence from Transnational Marriage Migration: Danièle Bélanger and Andrea Flynn.- 13 Womanhood Implies Travel: Punjabi Marriage and Migration between India and Britain: Kaveri Qureshi and Ben Rogaly.- 14 "Where Husbands Find Jobs and Women Go to School": Gender, Employment and U.S. Refugee Resettlement of Burma-origin Families: Pilapa Esara Carroll.- Families & Marriage: 15 Women's Happiness in Contemporary China: The Relevance of Unpaid Work: Ieva Zumbyte, Susan E. Short, and Nancy Luke.- 16 Gendered Support for Older People in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis: Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill, Vita Priantina Dewi, Tengku Syawila Fithry, and Philip

Nancy E. Riley is a professor of Sociology at Bowdoin College (Maine, USA). She has graduate degrees in sociology, public health, and demography. Her research focuses on population, gender, and families. She has published extensively on issues in critical demography, especially on gender and demography, including Demography in the Age of the Postmodern (Cambridge, 2003). Her empirical work examines issues of families, gender, and population in China; her 2012 book (Springer), Laboring in Paradise: Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone explored the gendered dynamics of power in migrant families in Northeast China. Her most recent book, Population in China (Polity) was published in 2017. She is currently working on a project on Chinese experience in Hawai`i.