In Defense of Death and the Shorter,Sweeter Life: A Review Essay*

Books reviewed in this issue. Nancy Folbre
Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas Joel Mokyr
The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1850 Robert M. Milardo
The Forgotten Kin: Aunts and Uncles Nathan Keyfitz and Hal Caswell
Applied Mathematical Demography (Third Edition) SHORT REVIEWS Paul Collier
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must—and How We Can—Manage Nature for Global Prosperity Marcia C. Inhorn , Tine Tjornhoj‐ Thomsen , Helene Goldberg , and Maruska la Cour Mosegaard (eds. )
Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction Elizabeth L. Krause
Unraveled: A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern Fred Pearce
The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet's Surprising Future Vaclav Smil
Why America Is Not a New Rome Joel P. Trachtman
The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom US Department of Agriculture , Economic Research Service Food Security Assessment, 2010–20 Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2009 (David Coleman and Dalkhat Ediev , Guest editors )
Special Issue on “Impact of Migration on Demographic Change and Composition in Europe”     

SHORT REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Christoph Borgmann Social Security, Demographics, and Risk Maxx Dilley , Robert S. Chen , Uwe Deichmann , Arthur L. Lerner ‐Lam , and Margaret Arnold Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis Christophe Z. Guilmoto and S. Irudaya Rajan (eds. ) Fertility Transition in South India Susanne M. Klausen Race, Maternity, and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910–39 Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder ‐Butterfill (eds. ) Ageing without Children: European and Asian Perspectives United Nations Human Settlements Programme The State of the World's Cities, 2004/2005: Globalization and Urban Culture     

BOOK REVIEWS

John M. BarryThe Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History Jacqueline Scott, Judith Treas, and Martin Richards (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families Brígida García, Richard Anker, and Antonella Pinnelli (eds.) Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies: Demographic Issues Samuel P. HuntingtonWho Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity Herbert S. KleinA Population History of the United States Jean Elisabeth PedersenLegislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870–1920 Peter SingerOne World: The Ethics of Globalization Jagdish BhagwatiIn Defense of Globalization Vanessa L. FongOnly Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One‐Child Policy Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka (eds.) On the Move: Women in Rural‐to‐Urban Migration in Contemporary China Peter S. HellerWho Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long‐Term Fiscal Challenges Phillip LongmanThe Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It William PetersenFrom Persons to People: Further Studies in the Politics of Population Leo Suryadinata, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, and Aris AnantaIndonesia's Population: Ethnicity and Religion in a Changing Political Landscape United Nations Human Settlements ProgrammeThe Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements     

SHORT REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor Ester Boserup, My Professional Life and Publications 1929–1998 Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Tekxu, and Patrick Webb, Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention John Brotchie, Peter Newton, Peter Hall, and John Dickey (eds.), East West Perspectives on 21st Century Urban Development: Sustainable Eastern and Western Cities in the New Millennium Alex de Sherbinin and Victoria Dompka (eds.), Water and Population Dynamics: Case Studies and Policy Implications Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs: Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields Peter H. Gleick, The World's Water 1998–1999: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, and Marc A. Stern (eds.), Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century Patricia W. Lunneborg, The Chosen Lives of Childfree Men Thomas Gale Moore, Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1998 Revision. Volume I: Comprehensive Tables; Volume II: The Sex and Age Distribution of the World Population US Agency for International Development and US Department of Commerce, World Population Profile: 1998, with a Special Chapter Focusing on HIV I AIDS in the Developing World     

Rocky Mountain Visions: A Review Essay*

George J. Borjas, Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy Douglas S. Massey, Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, Aistd J. Edward Taylor, Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World Joseph P. Ferrie, Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum United States 1840–1860 Francine M. Deutsch, Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works     

Between the look (la mirada) and the Escape (la fuga): the imaging of women in Solanas' La hora de los hornos and Tangos/El exilio de Gardel

This paper revisits the issues raised in debates on the politics of recognition from the point of view of media practitioners and their experiences in covering women's issues and perspectives. It explores the concerns regarding the attempts to improve media coverage of women's issues and perspectives by looking into one particular women's programme, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. The analysis is based primarily on interviews with members of the Woman's Hour's team and complemented by basic information on the presence of different subject areas and speakers in a sample of actual programming. The paper explores the criteria employed by journalists in their day-to-day decisions regarding the issues and approaches appropriate for the specialist women's programme. It discusses interviewees' definitions of Woman's Hour items and the three main factors that influence their selection of issues and the ways to approach them. The first factor concerns the identity of the programme: its issues, voices, and their diversity. The second factor is the listeners or, more broadly, the public and the ways it shapes Woman's Hour. The third factor is the professional and institutional context of the programme. The concluding discussion examines the ways in which Woman's Hour combines or oscillates between recognition and deconstruction of women's/gender identities, producers' interests and the perceived interests of their audiences, and feminist politics and journalistic principles.     

The Biology of Behavior and the Study of Human Fertility: A Review Essay*

Books reviewed in this article: Paul‐André Rosental L'intelligence démographique: sciences et politiques des populations en France (1930–1960) James R. Carey Longevity: The Biology and Demography of Life Span Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan Demography and Nutrition: Evidence from Historical and Contemporary Populations Laura R. Woliver The Political Geographies of Pregnancy     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Taking Stock of Population Studies: A Review Essay Review of Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin, and Guillaume Wunsch (eds.) Demography: Analysis and Synthesis Contesting the Cause and Severity of the Black Death: A Review Essay Review of Ole J. Benedictow, The Black Death, 1346–1353: The Complete History Saul Halfon The Cairo Consensus: Demographic Surveys, Women's Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population Policy Helen Epstein The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS SHORT REVIEWS Andrea Cornwall , Elizabeth Harrison, and Ann Whitehead (eds.) Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung The Foreign‐Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 2000 Claude Got , Patricia Delhomme, and Sylvain Lassarre More Could Be Done to Prevent Road Deaths in France Devesh Kapur and John Mc Hale Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World Esther Katz (ed.) The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger. Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928–1939 Ça?lar Özden and Maurice Schiff (eds.) International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain United Nations Population Fund State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: J. C. Waterlow, D. G. Armstrong, Leslie Fowden, and Ralph Riley (eds.), Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People: A Challenge to Science Daniel Callahan, False Hopes: Why America's Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure Alain Bideau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Héctor Pérez Brignoli (eds.), Infant and Child Mortality in the Past Noël Bonneuil, Transformation of the French Demographic Landscape, 1806–1906 J. Clarke and D. Noin (eds.), Population and Environment in Arid Regions Gad G. Gilbar, Population Dilemmas in the Middle East: Essays in Political Demography and Economy James L. Newman, The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation     

Book Reviews

Laurence J. Kotlikoff AND Scott Burns The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future Brian Fagan The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization Catherine Hakim Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities Frank D. Bean and Gillian Stevens America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity Ben J. Wattenberg Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Patrick V. Kirch and Jean ‐Louis Rallu (eds. ) The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives Bjorn Lomborg Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming Nancy Folbre Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family Helge Brunborg , Ewa Tabeau, and Henrik Urdal (eds. ) The Demography of Armed Conflict SHORT REVIEWS Isabelle Attané and Christophe Z. Guilmoto (eds .) Watering the Neighbour's Garden: The Growing Demographic Female Deficit in Asia John C. Caldwell Demographic Transition Theory Robert Clark , Naohiro Ogawa, and Andrew Mason (eds. ) Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy Nicholas Eberstadt and Hans Groth Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge: Unlocking the Value of Health Stockholm Committee on Mortality Forecasting Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting Jacques Véron , Sophie Pennec, and Jacques Légaré (eds. ) Ages, Generations and the Social Contract: The Demographic Challenges Facing the Welfare State     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Samuel H. Preston, Patrick Heuveline, And Michel Guillot, Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes Bobbi S. Low, Why Sex. Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior Linda Mealey, Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen (Eds.), Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2000: Health Systems: Improving Performance John Bongaarts and Rodolfo A. Bulatao (Eds.), Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population John D. Early and John F. Peters, The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: History, Social Structure, and Population Dynamics     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Tim Dyson , Robert Cassen , and Leela Visaria (eds .) Twenty‐First Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development, and the Environment United Nations Population Division Living Arrangements of Older Persons Around the World William Easterly The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good     

Queering Ethnicity in the First Gay Films From Ex-Yugoslavia

Between 2002 and 2005 four of the Yugoslav successor states produced major feature films with lesbian or gay protagonists: Maja Weiss's Guardian of the Frontier (Slovenia, 2002), Dalibor Matani?'s Fine Dead Girls (Croatia, 2002), Dragan Marinkovi?'s Take a Deep Breath (Serbia, 2004), and Ahmed Imamovi?'s Go West (Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2005). As with other films from Eastern Europe that portray queer characters, all of these films were shot by straight directors, and the queer characters are not representations of real local queer communities, but instead are used as metaphors to address topics the filmmakers find more important, such as ethnicity and national identity. The ethnic hatreds that fueled the wars of the 1990s were mobilized through the heterosexual matrix. In these films anxieties about ethnicity are worked out through plots involving queer sexuality, though they work differently for male and female couples: female bodies can be conventionally objectified by the heterosexual male gaze, while male couples become the focus for anxieties about male rape.     

Being NEET in Europe Before and After the Economic Crisis: An Analysis of the Micro and Macro Determinants

The right to adequate minimum income protection is one of the key principles included in the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). The EPSR takes a right-based and normative approach, aiming specifically at fulfilling people’s essential needs, not only by guaranteeing sufficiently high income levels, but also by promoting labour market inclusion and access to affordable goods and services of good quality. This paper takes the EPSR as a starting point to propose a needs-based indicator that assesses the adequacy of minimum income protection including these three dimensions in a comprehensive way. We argue that Reference Budgets (RBs), priced baskets of goods and services that represent an adequate living standard, are well-suited to construct such an indicator. To illustrate this empirically, we use RBs for adequate social participation in Belgium which have been constructed for the first time in 2008 and have been regularly updated since then. Through a combination of hypothetical household simulations of essential out-of-pocket costs and designated tax-benefits for families living on different minimum income schemes, we are able to assess the adequacy of minimum income protection for a range of household types over the period 2008–2017. The paper shows that, the proposed indicator is a useful policy tool for both ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of the adequacy of social policy measures in light of the social protection and inclusion rights included in the Pillar.

     

Explaining age differences in women’s emotional well-being: The role of subjective experiences of aging

ABSTRACT

Our study examines explanations for the “paradox” of older women’s better emotional well-being compared with younger women. We consider the role of subjective experiences of aging in a society that devalues older women. Using a sample of women (n = 872) from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (1995–1996 and 2004–2006), we examine the role of five components of the subjective experience of aging in explaining older women’s better emotional well-being compared with younger women: age identity, conceptions of the timing of middle age, aging attitudes, aging anxieties, and self-assessed physiological changes. We find that, compared with women 50–54 years old, those 35–39 years old report lower positive affect, and those 25–49 report higher negative affect. These patterns are partially explained by younger women’s greater anxiety about declines in health and attractiveness and older women’s more youthful identities. Our study underscores the value of considering the implications of our ageist and sexist society for women’s emotional well-being across adulthood.     

Book Reviews

Edward C. Green Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing Countries Doris Buss and Didi Herman Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right in International Politics Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore The Size of Nations David Glimp Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England Martin King Whyte (Ed.) China's Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations Janet Rothenberg Pack Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside AIDS in the Twenty‐first Century: Disease and Globalization Frank D. Bean and Gillian Stevens America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity A. P. Joshi, M. D. Srinivas, and J. K. Bajaj Religious Demography of India Edward Newman and Joanne van Selm (Eds.) Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability, and the State     

Endless Interrogation

This paper takes a revisionist look at the first episode of Prime Suspect (1991–2006)—hereafter known as Prime Suspect (1)— in what was to become a cycle of dramas, conceptualised, and in the first instance, written by Lynda La Plante, based upon the female Detective Chief Inspector character, Jane Tennison. Critical attention has hitherto tended to shift away from Brunsdon's (2000) ground-breaking work on Prime Suspect (1)'s “equal opportunities discourse” toward critiques which emphasise its noir, hardboiled and literary, traditions. The paper thus seeks to rehabilitate Prime Suspect (1)'s televisual—rather than derived—lineage, in an adapted form of dramatised documentary practice. By using insights drawn from Kristevan psychoanalytic analysis I undertake an analysis of the programme in order to demonstrate how the masculine police series drama genre may be not only intervened, but is ultimately deconstructed by, the abject female body.