Gender, social networks, and contraceptive use in Kenya

Sex Roles

Volumn 53, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 835-846

  Musalia, John M ^a  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraception; Gender; Kenya; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 29844456788     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-005-8296-0     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. Agadjanian, V. (2002). Men's talk about "women's matters": Gender, communication, and contraception in urban Mozambique. Gender and Society, 16, 194-215.
2. Bates, R. H. (1989). Beyond the miracle of the market. New York: Cambridge University Press.
3. Berkman, L. F., Glass, T., Brissette, I., & Seeman, T. E. (2000). From social intergration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium. Social Science and Medicine, 51, 843-857.
4. Bongaarts, J., & Watkins, S. (1996). Social interactions and contemporary fertility transitions. Population and Development Review, 22, 639-682.
5. Boserup, E. (1985). Economic and demographic interrelationships in sub-Saharan Africa. Population and Development Review, 11, 383-397.
6. Boulay, M., & Valente, T. W. (1999). The relationship of social affiliation and interpersonal discussion to family planning knowledge, attitudes, and practice. International Family Planning Perspectives, 25, 112-118 & 138.
7. Bradley, C. (1995). Women's empowerment and fertility decline in western Kenya. In S. Greenhalgh (Ed.), Situating fertility: Anthropology and demographic inquiry (pp. 157-178). New York: Cambridge University Press.
8. Burt, R. (2001). Structural holes versus network closure as social capital. In N. Lin, K. Cook, & R. S. Burt (Eds.), Social capital: Theory and research (pp. 31-56). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
9. Caldwell, J. C., & Caldwell, P. (1987). The cultural context of high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. Population and Development Review, 13, 409-437.
10. Eberstadt, N. (1981). Recent declines in fertility in less developed countries, and what population planners may learn from them. In N. Eberstadt (Ed.), Fertility decline in less developed countries (pp. 29-71). New York: Praeger.
11. Ezeh, A. C., Seroussi, M., & Raggers, H. (1996). Men's fertility, contraceptive use, and reproductive preferences. Demographic and Health Surveys Comparative Studies [No. 18]. Calverton, MD: Macro International.
12. Feyisetan, B. J., Phillips, J. F., & Binka, F. (2003). Social interaction and contraceptive change in northern Ghana. African Population Studies, 18, 47-67.
13. Frank, O., & McNicoll, G. (1987). An interpretation of fertility and population policy in Kenya. Population and Development Review, 13, 209-243.
14. Godley, J. (2001). Kinship networks and contraceptive choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. International Family Planning Perspectives, 27, 4-10, 41.
15. Gwako, L. E. (1997). Conjugal power in rural Kenya families: Its influence on women's decision about family size and family planning practices. Sex Roles, 36, 127-146.
16. Kitching, G. (1980). Class and economic change in Kenya: The making of an African petite-bourgeosie. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
17. Kohler, H.-P., Behrman, J. R., & Watkins, S. (2001). The density of social networks and fertility decisions: Evidence from South Nyanza District, Kenya. Demography, 38, 43-58.
18. Hollerbach, P. E. (1980). Power in families, communication, and fertility decision making. Population and Environment, 3, 146-173.
19. Lin, N. (2001). Building a network theory of social capital. In N. Lin, K. Cook, & R. S. Burt (Eds.), Social capital: Theory and research (pp. 3-30). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
20. Livingstone, I. (1986). Rural development, employment, and incomes in Kenya. Brookfield, VT: Gower.
21. Madhavan, S., Adams, A., & Simon, D. (2003). Women's network and the social world of fertility behavior. International Family Planning Perspectives, 29, 58-68.
22. Mason, K. O., & Taj, A. M. (1987). Differences between women's and men's reproductive goals in developing countries. Population and Development, 13, 611-638.
23. Montgomery, M., & Casterline, J. (1996). Social influence, social learning, and new models of fertility. Population and Development Review 22(Suppl.), 151-175.
24. Montgomery, M. R., & Chung, W. (1998). Social networks and the diffusion of fertility control in the republic of Korea. In R. Leete (Ed.), The dynamics of values in fertility change (pp. 179-209). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
25. Musalia, J. (2003). Extraconjugal determinants of spousal communication about family planning in Kenya. Sex Roles, 49, 597-607.
26. National Council for Population and Development (NCPD), Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) and Macro International Inc. (MI). (1999). Kenya demographic and health survey 1998. Calverton, MD: NCPD, CBS, and MI.
27. Ngom, P. (1997). Implications of men's unmet need in Africa. Studies in Family Planning, 28, 192-202.
28. Orvis, S. (1993). The Kenyan agrarian debate: A reappraisal. African Studies Review, 36, 23-48.
29. Pescosolido, B. A. (1992). Beyond rational choice: The social dynamics of how people seek help. American Journal of Sociology, 97, 1096-1138.
30. Robertson, C. (1996). Grassroots in Kenya: Women, genital mutilation, and collective action, 1920-1990. Signs, 21, 615-642.
31. Robertson, C. (1997). The trouble showed the way: Women, men, and trade in the Nairobi area, 1890-1990. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
32. Robinson, W. C. (1992). Kenya enters the fertility transition. Population Studies, 46, 445-457.
33. Roudi, F., & Ashford, L. (1996). Men and family planning in Africa. Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau.
34. Rutenberg, N., & Watkins, S. C. (1997). The buzz outside the clinics: Conversations and contraception in Nyanza province, Kenya. Studies in Family Planning, 28, 290-307.
35. Sottas, B. (1992). Aspects of a peasant mode of production: Exchange and the extent of sufficiency among smallholders in western Laikipia, Kenya. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 27, 271-295.
36. Valente, T. W., Watkins, S. C., Jato, M. N., Straten, A. V., & Tsitsol, L.-P. M. (1997). Social network associations with contraceptive use among Cameroonian women in voluntary associations. Social Science and Medicine, 45, 677-687.
37. Wa Karanja, W. (1983). Conjugal decision-making: Some data from Lagos. In C. Oppong (Ed.), Female and male in West Africa, (pp. 236-241). London: Allen and Unwin.
38. Watkins, S. C. (1993). If all we knew about women is what we read in Demography, what would we know? Demography, 30, 551-577
39. Watkins, S. C. (2000). Local and foreign models of reproduction in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Population and Development Review, 26, 725-759.