Abortion in post-revolutionary Tunisia : politics, medicine and morality /

"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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Maffi, Irene (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
Series:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 46.
Subjects:
Since 1987
Abortion > Tunisia > Public opinion.
Contraception > Tunisia > Public opinion.
Reproductive rights > Government policy > Tunisia.
Reproductive health services > Tunisia.
Public opinion > Tunisia.
Contraception > Tunisie > Opinion publique.
Droits génésiques > Politique gouvernementale > Tunisie.
Services de santé de la reproduction > Tunisie.
Opinion publique > Tunisie.
MEDICAL / Surgery / Reproductive & Urological.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control
Abortion > Public opinion.
Contraception > Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Reproductive health services.
Social conditions.
Tunisia > Social conditions > 1987-
Tunisie > Conditions sociales > 1987-
Tunisia.
Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies and Sexuality, Political and Economic Anthropology.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Situating Abortion: Islam, the Arab Countries and the Tunisian Exception
  • Putting Abortion into Question: Debates, Actors and Stakes after the Revolution
  • Female Bodies, Contraception and Reproductive Norms
  • Reproductive Governance, Moral Regimes and Unwanted Pregnancies
  • Imagining Early Pregnancy: Ontologies of the Foetus and the Moral Perception of Abortion
  • Conclusion.

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