Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-795-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 393 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and India. It includes powerful insight into the conditions and hard choices faced by women and the circumstances surrounding unplanned pregnancies. It explores the connections among poverty, violence, barriers to access, and the politics and strategies involved in abortion law reform. The contributors analyze these issues within the broader conflicts surrounding women's status, gender roles, religion, nationalism and modernity, as well as the global politics of reproductive health.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whittaker, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

List of Appendices

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Chapter 1: Abortion in Asia: an overview

Andrea Whittaker

Chapter 2: Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia

Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy and Phirun Lam

Chapter 3: Between remembering and forgetting: Post-diagnostic abortions in Hanoi, Vietnam

Tine M. Gammeltoft

Chapter 4: Violence, Poverty and ‘Weakness’- Interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion

Suzanne Belton

Chapter 5: Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh

Sabina Faiz Rashid

Chapter 6: Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu: Balancing costs and quality of care

Lakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J Pelto

Chapter 7: Abortion in Vietnam: History, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moi

Merrill Wolf, Phan Bich Thuy, Alyson Hyman and Amanda Huber

Chapter 8: Abortion and politics in Indonesia

Terence H Hull and Ninuk Widyantoro

Chapter 9: Barriers to access to abortion services in Malaysia: Misinformation and stigma

Rashidah Abdullah and Yut-Lin Wong

Chapter 10: Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand: An analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006

Nongluk Boonthai, Sripen Tantivess, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and Kamheang Chaturachinda

Chapter 11: Epilogue: Further challenges

Andrea Whittaker

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Whittaker, Andrea
Andrea Whittaker is Associate Professor in the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia. Her previous publications include Intimate Knowledge: Women and their health in North-east Thailand (2000), Women’s Health in South-east Asia (edited, 2002) and Abortion, Sin, and the State in Thailand (2004). Her current research interests focus on infertility and reproductive tourism and medical travel in Thailand and the region.

Andrea Whittaker is Associate Professor in the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia. Her previous publications include Intimate Knowledge: Women and their health in North-east Thailand (2000), Women’s Health in South-east Asia (edited, 2002) and Abortion, Sin, and the State in Thailand (2004). Her current research interests focus on infertility and reproductive tourism and medical travel in Thailand and the region.