Arbitrating Abortion: Sex-selection and Care Work among Abortion Providers in England

Kasstan, Ben; Unnithan, Maya

doi:10.1080/01459740.2019.1709183

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“…This approach is important because the ethnographic record highlights how cultural, racial and religious stereotyping and typecasting occurs across the continuum of reproductive healthcare, from antenatal and maternity care to contraceptive, infertility and abortion care (e.g. Blell 2019;Davis 2019;Kasstan and Unnithan 2020;Purewal 2003Purewal , 2010. Taking these debates forward, this chapter is concerned with how providers consider the lived constraints of women, and approach diversity in reproductive healthcare.…”

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‘Well, She's Entitled to Her Choice’: Negotiating Technologies Amidst Anticipatory Futures of Reproductive Potential

Kasstan¹

2022

Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse

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By 'routinized' technologies of reproduction, I refer to the obstetric interventions and services that form part of everyday women's healthcare, which may enable decision-making but also 'decenter and displace women' (cf. Davis 2019: 9; Davis-Floyd 2004). One in three women in the UK will have an abortion in their lifetime and one in four babies are born by caesarean, making these services two 'routinized' areas of reproductive care.

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‘Well, She's Entitled to Her Choice’: Negotiating Technologies Amidst Anticipatory Futures of Reproductive Potential

Kasstan¹

2022

Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse

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Reproductive Rights and Abortion

Whittaker¹

2021

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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The rights of women to comprehensive reproductive care including abortion remains elusive, despite its importance to women's health. Moral regimes, for instance in relation to the status of the fetus, continue to mediate the conditions under which women abort, the support they receive, and the degree of stigma they experience. Issues such as sex selection test the limits of reproductive autonomy. The political economy of reproduction matters as poverty constrains access to quality services, even where abortion is legal. Health professionals continue to act as arbiters of abortion access. New technologies such as ultrasound, manual vacuum aspiration, misoprostol, mifepristone, and the internet have brought new subjectivities, practices, and forms of activism. There is a critique of rights discourse as having been usurped by state actors and even anti‐abortion proponents, hinging abortion rights on responsible reproductive citizenship. Concepts of reproductive justice and bodily autonomy provide productive frameworks for analysis and activism.

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Anthropology Of Abortion

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A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology

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Arbitrating Abortion: Sex-selection and Care Work among Abortion Providers in England

Abstract: Article (Accepted Version) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Kasstan, Ben and Unnithan, Maya (2020) Arbitrating abortion: sex-selection and care work among abortion providers in England. Medical Anthropology. pp. 1-16.

Cited by 9 publications

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‘Well, She's Entitled to Her Choice’: Negotiating Technologies Amidst Anticipatory Futures of Reproductive Potential

‘Well, She's Entitled to Her Choice’: Negotiating Technologies Amidst Anticipatory Futures of Reproductive Potential

Reproductive Rights and Abortion

Anthropology Of Abortion

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