Abortion in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

Politics, Medicine and Morality

AvIrene Maffi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del 46 i serien Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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Beskrivning

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party ‘Ennahdha’ allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women’s right to abortion to be expressed. This also allowed healthcare providers in the public sector to refuse abortion and contraceptive care. This book explores the changes and continuity in the local discourses and practices related to the body, sexuality, reproduction and gender relationships. It also investigates how the bureaucratic apparatus of government healthcare facilities affects the complex moral world of clinicians and patients.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Antal sidor:218
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789206906

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Irene Maffi is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, and Associated Researcher at Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen. She is the author of Women, Health and the State in the Middle East (2012, I.B.Tauris) and co-editor of Reinventing Love? Gender, Intimacy and Romance in the Arab World (2018, Peter Lang).

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“This book takes on a thorny subject which is very timely and for which little data exists. It is well-written and comprehensive. The research is well done and unique. There’s no competition for this book.” Donna Lee Bowen, Brigham Young University

Innehållsförteckning

List of figuresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on transliterationIntroduction: Situating Abortion: Islam, the Arab countries and the Tunisian ExceptionChapter 1. Putting Abortion into Question: Debates, Actors and Stakes after the RevolutionChapter 2. Contracepted Bodies and Reproductive NormsChapter 3. Reproductive Governance, Moral Regimes and Unwanted PregnanciesChapter 4. Imagining Early Pregnancy: Ontologies of the Foetus and the Moral Perception of AbortionConclusionGlossaryReferencesIndex