Fertility and the Male Life-Cycle in the Era of Fertility Decline

Part I Overview: male fertility trends in industrial countries - theories in search of some evidence, David Coleman; traditions of studying paternity in social anthropology, Jane I. Guyer. Part II Shaping male reproductive culture: the seeds of man - ethnological notes on male sexuality and fecundity among the Maya, Mario Umberto Ruiz; making "responsible" men - planning the family in Egypt, Kamran Asdar Ali; male protagonists in the "commercialization" of aspects of the female life cycle in Ghana, John Anarfi and Clara Fayorsey. Part III Men in multiple unions: men, polygyny, and fertility over the life course in sub-Saharan Africa, Ann Blanc and Anastasia Gage; male nuptiality and male fertility among the Qing nobility - polygyny or serial monogamy? James Lee and Wang Feng; dimensions of sexuality among Nigerian men - implications for fertility and reproductive health, Nosa Orobaton. Part IV Conundrums of entry into fatherhood: "someone to take my place" - fertility and the male life course among coastal Boike, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, Philip Steel; fatherhood in east and west Germany - results of the German family and fertility survey, Katherina Pohl; fathers and families in contemporary Spain - from dictatorship to democracy, Pau Miret Gamundi. Part V Fatherhood of which children?: demographic patterns of motherhood and fatherhood in France, Laurent Toulemon and Evelyn Laoierre-Adamcyk; men, parenthood, and divorce in the era of the second demographic transition, Frances Goldscheider, Pamela Webster, and Gayle Kaufman; male fertility as a lifetime of relationships - contextualizing men's biological reproduction in Botswana, Nichoas Townsend.

Caroline Bledsoe is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Susana Lerner is Professor of Demography and Coordinator of the Research Program on Population Policies, Institutional Mediations, and Reproductive Behavior at the Center for Demographic and Urban Studies, El Colegio de Mexico. Jane I. Guyer is Director of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University and Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois.