Overview

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.

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Author:   Andrea Whittaker
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780857457950

ISBN 10:   0857457950
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   01 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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[This book] makes an empirically rich and important contribution to social scientific scholarship on induced abortion practices and will hopefully inspire further studies. * Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

Author Information

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.

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