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ajiss-2184	Benton, Catherine	Family, Gender, and Population in the Middle East: Policies in Context by Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, editor. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1995, 257 pp.	1998.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2526	78	38	This research brings into focus the com- plexities that result when various factors push and pull on individual women, Book Reviews 127 men, and family systems as they cope with the realities of more or fewer chil­ dren. Several major themes emerge: the need to understand family planning within the larger context of women’s health ser- vices, “the need to better define and measure widely used but little understood concepts such as women’s status and autonomy” (p. xii), and the need to exam- ine “women’s rights” within the context of traditional Islam as it is practiced in specific cultural and geographic areas.	cache/ajiss-2184.pdf	txt/ajiss-2184.txt