Breaking the silence on abortion: the role of adult community abortion education in fostering resistance to norms

Bloomer, Fiona; O’Dowd, Kellie; Macleod, Catriona

doi:10.1080/13691058.2016.1257740

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“…Research suggests that women’s responses to seeking and undergoing abortion may include negativity, positivity and ambivalence – that is, experiencing multiple emotions simultaneously – and that the complexity of feelings experienced by women warrants further attention ( Kero 2014 ; Kero and Lalos 2000 ). What women who have undergone abortion feel able to say about their experiences, however, is constrained by the social narratives they perceive to be readily available to them ( Beynon-Jones 2017 ; Macleod, Sigcau, and Luwaca 2011 ; Purcell, Brown et al 2017 ). Popular culture and the media contribute to perpetuating particular narratives ( Purcell, Hilton, and McDaid 2014 ; Sisson and Kimport 2016 , 2017 ), although a multiplicity of experiences has become more evident in recent years ( Sisson 2019 ).…”

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Toward normalising abortion: findings from a qualitative secondary analysis study

Purcell

Maxwell

Bloomer

et al. 2020

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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In most settings worldwide, abortion continues to be highly stigmatised. Whilst a considerable body of literature has addressed abortion stigma, what is less commonly examined are the ways in which those with experience of abortion describe it in non-negative terms which may resist or reject stigma. Drawing on qualitative secondary analysis of five UK datasets using a narrative inquiry approach, we explore: the use of non-negative language around abortion, potential components of a normalising narrative, and constraints on non-negativity. As such, we present the first empirical UK study to critically examine how a dominant negative abortion narrative might be disrupted. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Toward normalising abortion: findings from a qualitative secondary analysis study

Purcell

Maxwell

Bloomer

et al. 2020

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…74 This methodology transforms classroom practice into classroom praxis which is both reflective and reflexive, internalising new knowledge so as to inform new action. 75 Empathetic-reflectivedialogical restorying created an opportunity for self-dialogue and selfnarrative to be communicated in a safe space, within a CiC, CiD, and CfT. Students considered the disjuncture between religious and cultural discourses and the right to bodily self-determination.…”

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Exploring Religious and Cultural Identities and the Right to Bodily Self-Determination in a South African Higher Education Context

Jarvis¹,

Mthiyane²

2019

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This article argues that it is essential to create safe spaces in which to explore conversations at the intersection between personal religious and cultural identities and human rights. To facilitate this exploration, located within a feminist research paradigm, an empathetic-reflectivedialogical approach is adopted to engage with pre-service teachers in a South African Higher Education Institution. Selected Bachelor of Education Honours students were encouraged to engage in selfdialogue and to write their self-narratives. Participating in Communities in Conversation, Communities in Dialogue, and Communities for Transformation provided the opportunity for empathetic-reflectivedialogical restorying to take place. This restorying has the potential to address the possible disconnection between the individual's personal identities when considering human rights issues, and in this instance, the right to bodily self-determination, and more specifically the termination of pregnancy. In doing so, the ways in which power operates in gendered relationships, often promoted by religious and cultural norms, is explored. In particular, female students found it empowering to engage with their "other" (male students). Both female and male students described this engagement as transformative. KEYWORDS empathetic-reflective-dialogical restorying; communities in conversation; communities in dialogue; communities for transformation; right to bodily self-determination 1 While it is recognised that there are more genders than the male and female binary, in the context of this study, "other" is used by the female students to refer to their male counterparts and vice versa.

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“…Such results may guide strategies for shifting public constructions of health toward productive rather than prohibitive dialogue with personal and indigenous religious beliefs (Bonifacio, 2018). Grassroots efforts may be well-poised to promote women’s well-being in a manner which widens community participation (especially with men and families), and embraces intersectional sensitivity to local classed milieus without re-inscribing colonial discourses of development and surveillance (Bloomer et al, 2017; Suh, 2018; Terry & Braun, 2011).…”

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Intersectional discourses of reproductive agency in the Philippines: A mixed methods analysis of classed constructions of pregnancy resolution

Uyheng

Nicdao

Carmona

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Feminism & Psychology

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Women negotiate gendered discourses of reproductive agency in resolving unplanned pregnancies. Invoking an intersectional lens, this paper examines how these discursive dynamics differentiate across social class in the Global South context of the Philippines. Utilizing a novel mixed methods strategy, we triangulate quantitative findings from a Q sort task and qualitative accounts of pregnancy resolution to identify classed discourses of reproductive agency as (a) reclaiming maternal virtue and (b) asserting autonomous choice. Statistical analysis reveals significant discursive divergence across class, wherein working-class women primarily adopt maternal virtue discourses while middle-class women disproportionately subscribe to autonomous choice. Interpretative analysis of women’s accounts complicates this bifurcated characterization by surfacing the diverse ways by which women negotiate both discourses in narratives of abortion and carrying to term. We discuss our contributions to the literature in terms of multilevel theoretical engagement with classed complexity in gendered issues like reproductive agency as well as innovating mixed methods in intersectional research. We conclude with reflections on advancing reproductive justice, especially in Global South societies like the Philippines.

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Breaking the silence on abortion: the role of adult community abortion education in fostering resistance to norms

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Toward normalising abortion: findings from a qualitative secondary analysis study

Toward normalising abortion: findings from a qualitative secondary analysis study

Exploring Religious and Cultural Identities and the Right to Bodily Self-Determination in a South African Higher Education Context

Intersectional discourses of reproductive agency in the Philippines: A mixed methods analysis of classed constructions of pregnancy resolution

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