Abortion in Asia local dilemmas, global politics
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...
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| Resource Type: | Electronic Resource |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Berghahn Books
[2010]
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| Series: | Fertility, reproduction and sexuality
v.20 IG library |
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| Online Access: | Available for University of the Philippines Baguio via IG Library with URL: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/BERGHAHNB0000748.html. Click here to request |
Table of Contents:
- Abortion in Asia : an overview / Andrea Whittaker
- Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia / Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy and Phirun Lam
- Between remembering and forgetting : maintaining moral motherhood after late-term abortion / Tine M. Gammeltoft
- Violence, poverty, and ?weakness? : interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion / Suzanne Belton
- Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh / Sabina Faiz Rashid
- Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu : balancing costs and quality of care / Lakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J. Pelto
- Abortion in Vietnam : history, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moi / Merrill Wolf ... [et al.]
- Abortion and politics in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull and Ninuk Widyantoro
- Access to abortion services in Malaysia : a rights-based approach / Rashidah Abdullah and Yut-Lin Wong
- Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand : an analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006 / Nongluk Boonthai ... [et al.]
- Epilogue : further challenges / Andrea Whittaker.