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QUINTANA LLANIO, Livia. Cuba: fertility and decisions  making around reproduction. Looks in context. Rev Nov Pob [online]. 2017, vol.13, n.25, pp. 110-129. ISSN 1817-4078.

The level of Cuban fertility, below the replacement for nearly 40 years, has been determining in the change in the population age structure. Their behavior is interconnected with various factors involving the individual decisions about reproduction. Both subjects are objects of social relevance to science. Hence the general objective of the study is proposed: characterize the Cuban fertility in the period 2002-2012 and its interrelation with the process of individual decisions about reproduction in men and women. It used a mixed methodology that incorporated the demographic analysis of fertility, with the study of various cases. We selected a municipality as a unit of the division political administrative closest to the space-territory in which people make decisions in everyday life. The behavior of Cuban fertility and its regions between 2002-2012, shows multiple interrelations between social and sectorial policies with the persistence of patriarchal cultural patterns and socio-economic conditions that maintain and diversify the tensions around the familiar economic function and influence in the organization of other institutions. These elements converge heterogeneously distributed under the articulation of the systems of social differentiation with the subjectivity of the individuals, the possibilities of access to the market of the pairing and generate strategies that enable them to exercise control in their reproductive decisions.

Palabras clave : decisions making; fertility; gender and rights; reproduction; subjectivity.

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