Volume 57, Number 2 Vol. 57, 2002/2 - pagesPages 207 to 235The Platonic City: History and UtopiaBy Yves Charbit, translated from the French by Arundhati VirmaniPages 237 to 267Male and Female Characters in Illustrated Children's Books orBy Carole Brugeilles, Isabelle Cromer, Sylvie Cromer, translated by Yolande ObadiaPages 269 to 299Rural Development and Attitudes towards Family Size in Côte d'IvoireBy Aka Kouamé, Jona Schellekens, translated by Mireille RabenoroPages 301 to 330Unemployment Leads Women to Postpone the Birth of Their First ChildBy Monique Meron, Isabelle Widmer, translated by David ShapiroPages 331 to 357Women's Employment and Non-Marital Childbearing: A Comparison between East and West Germany in the 1990sBy Dirk Konietzka, Michaela KreyenfeldPages 359 to 370Iranian Families between Demographic Change and the Birth of the Welfare StateBy Marie Ladier-FouladiPages 371 to 404The Hospital, the Woman and the Physician: The Construction of In Vitro Fertilization TrajectoriesBy Laurence Tain, translated from the French by Glenn Robertson