Culture, Politics, Ideology and Reproductive Health in Turkey
Culture, Politics, Ideology and Reproductive Health in Turkey
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Description
This book reports the findings of a collaborative research project between Harvard University’s School of Public Health and Bahçeşehir University. Also viewed are the data from a national survey of cultural and particularly fertility values. It is found that religiosity, ethnicity and social class impact the reproductive behavior of Turkish women.
Yilmaz Esmer is a professor of political science and international relations
at Bahçesehir University in Istanbul. He received his bachelor’s
degree from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He
is an active researcher in a number of international projects including
the World Values Surveys and the European Values Study. He is the principal
investigator of the Harvard-Bahçesehir project on reproductive
health whose fi ndings are analyzed in this book.