Introduction, Caroline Bledsoe, Jane I. Guyer, and Susana Lerner
Part I Overview
1. Male Fertility Trends in Industrial Countries: Theories in search of some evidence, David Coleman
2. Traditions of Studying Paternity in Social Anthropology, Jane I. Guyer
Part II Shaping Male Reproductive Culture
3. The Seeds of Man: Ethnological Notes on Male Sexuality and Fecundity among the Maya, Mario Umberto Ruiz
4. Making 'Responsible' Men: Planning the Family in Egypt, Kamran Asdar Ali
5. 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
6. Men, Polygyny, and Fertility over the Life Course in sub-Saharan Africa, Ann Blanc and Anastasia Gage
7. Male Nuptiality and Male Fertility among the Qing Nobility: Polygyny or Serial Monogamy?, James Lee and Wang Feng
8. Dimensions of Sexuality among Nigerian Men: Implications for Fertility and Reproductive Health, Nosa Orobaton
Part IV Conundrums of Entry into Fatherhood
9. 'Someone to Take my Place': Fertility and the Male Life Course among Coastal Boiken, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, Philip Setel
10. Fatherhood in East and West Germany: Results of the German Family and Fertility Survey, Katherina Pohl
11. Fathers and Families in Contemporary Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy, Pau Miret Gamundi
Part V Fatherhood of Which Children?
12. Demographic Patterns of Motherhood and Fatherhood in France, Laurent Toulemon and Evelyn Lapierre-Adamcyk
13. Men, Parenthood, and Divorce in the Era of the Second Demographic Transition, Frances Goldscheider, Pamela Webster, and Gayle Kaufman
14. Male Fertility as a Lifetime of Relationships: Contextualizing Men's Biological Reproduction in Botswana, Nicholas Townsend
Index
Contributors