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Berghahn Books Abortion in Asia Local Dilemmas Global Politics 2010 Edition by Andrea Whittaker
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. Table of contents :- List of Tables and FiguresList of AppendicesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsChapter 1: Abortion in Asia: an overviewAndrea WhittakerChapter 2: Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural CambodiaElizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy and Phirun LamChapter 3: Between remembering and forgetting: Post-diagnostic abortions in Hanoi, VietnamTine M. Gammeltoft Chapter 4: Violence, Poverty and 'Weakness'- Interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortionSuzanne Belton Chapter 5: Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, BangladeshSabina Faiz RashidChapter 6: Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu: Balancing costs and quality of careLakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J PeltoChapter 7: Abortion in Vietnam: History, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moiMerrill Wolf, Phan Bich Thuy, Alyson Hyman and Amanda HuberChapter 8: Abortion and politics in IndonesiaTerence H Hull and Ninuk WidyantoroChapter 9: Barriers to access to abortion services in Malaysia: Misinformation and stigmaRashidah Abdullah and Yut-Lin WongChapter 10: Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand: An analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006Nongluk Boonthai, Sripen Tantivess, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and Kamheang ChaturachindaChapter 11: Epilogue: Further challengesAndrea Whittaker GlossaryIndex