Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Politics, Medicine and Morality
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-690-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

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

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maffi, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Wissenschaft, Technologie, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Urologie, Andrologie, Venerologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration

Introduction: Situating Abortion: Islam, the Arab countries and the Tunisian Exception

Chapter 1. Putting Abortion into Question: Debates, Actors and Stakes after the Revolution

Chapter 2. Female Bodies, Contraception and Reproductive Norms

Chapter 3. Reproductive Governance, Moral Regimes and Unwanted Pregnancies

Chapter 4. Imagining Early Pregnancy: Ontologies of the Foetus and the Moral Perception of Abortion

Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maffi, Irene
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).