Questions of Intimacy: Rethinking Population Education

Population education is in the throes of redefinition as the contributions to this book illustrate. Just as the population field itself has been critically reconstructed in the pre- and post- Cairo years of the past decade, so too have the substantive and semantic contents of adult learning programmes. A quick glance at some of the topics relating to the field of population education and contained in this volume underpins this point: sexuality, AIDS education, women’s empowerment, ageing, male involvement, masculinities, inter-generational learning, violence, reproductive rights, adolescence, fertility and education, and cultural context are just some of the issues discussed. ‘’Family planning’’ in its restricted sense and the achievement of quantitative demographic targets, although still present in the discourse, are less the focus of attention.

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