Based on a seminar organised by the Reproductive Health Committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population at Kwa Maritane, South Africa in June 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Weakness ('Ashaktapana') and Reproductive Health among Women -- in a Slum Population in Mumbai -- Radhika Ramasubban and Bhanwar Rishyasringa -- 2. Nutrition and Reproduction: The Socio-cultural Context of -- Food Behaviour in Rural South India -- Inge Hutter -- 3. 'Rariu Doesn't Rhyme with Western Medicine': Lay Beliefs and -- Illness Networks in Kenya -- Nancy Luke, Ina Warriner, and Susan Cotts Watkins -- 4. Money, Marriage, and Morality: Constraints on IVF Treatment-Seeking -- among Infertile Egyptian Couples -- Marcia C. Inhorn -- 5. Risk, Vulnerability, Harm Reduction: Preventing STIs in -- Southeast Asia by Antibiotic Prophylaxis, a Misguided Practice -- Mark Nichter -- Part II. Discourse, Practice, and Reproductive Choices -- 6. Managing 'the Missing Girls' in Chinese Population Discourse -- Susan Greenhalgh -- 7 Reproductive Health Counselling in the Islamic Republic of -- Iran: The Role of Women Mullahs -- Homa Hoodfar -- 8. Abortion in Egypt: Official Constraints and Popular Practices -- Dale Huntington -- 9. The Reproductive Consequences of Shifting Ethnic Identity in -- South Africa -- Carol E. Kaufman and Deborah James -- 10. Critical Perspectives: The Feminist Critique of Medicine, -- Medicalization, and the Making of Breast Implant Policy -- Nora Jacobson -- Part III. Culture, Reproduction, and Rights -- 11. Two Cultural Approaches for Understanding the Reproductive Health -- Consequences of Marital Violence in an Indian Area of Mexico -- Soledad Gonzdlez Montes -- 12. Eliminating Stigmatization: Application of the New Genetics in Japan -- Margaret Lock -- 13. Re-theorizing Reproductive Health and Rights in the Light -- of Feminist Cross-cultural Research -- Rosalind P. Petchesky -- 14. Culturalism as Ideology -- Didier Fassin -- Index.