Numbering others: Religious demography, identity, and fertility management experiences in contemporary India

Singh, Holly Donahue

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112534

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“…These forms of reproductive violence are stratified. Dalit 5 , Adivasi 6 and Muslim women whose fertilities are framed-socially and politically-as "high" are particular targets (Singh, 2020;Wilson, 2015); legitimising their bodies as particular sites for reproductive violence through these mechanisms (Jena and Biswal, 2015).…”

Section: Sterilisation and Abortion In India: Targets Incentives And ...mentioning

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‘I Feel Like Some Kind of Namoona’: Examining Sterilisation in Women's Abortion Trajectories in India

Nandagiri¹

2022

Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse

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Sterilisation in India (and globally) has a contentious and deeply politicised history. Despite this troubling legacy, India continues to rely on female sterilisation as the main form of contraception and family planning. Abortion, which has been legal under broad grounds since 1971, intersects with sterilisation at different points over women's reproductive life course. Drawing on three case studies exploring women's abortion trajectories in Karnataka, India (2017), this chapter examines sterilisation as a reproductive technology in women's abortion narratives. These include experiences of failed sterilisation necessitating abortion, as well as narratives around pre-and post-abortion counselling with sterilisation conditionalities. Women report healthcare workers shaming or scolding them for not being sterilised after their last pregnancy-demonstrating the prominence of sterilisation as an enforced social norm using "health" frames. Using reproductive justice as a lens, I analyse how sterilisation interacts with abortion and the narratives of shame and stigma that surround the two technologies and make visible the ways in which it results in the denial and restriction of women's reproductive freedoms.

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‘I Feel Like Some Kind of Namoona’: Examining Sterilisation in Women's Abortion Trajectories in India

Nandagiri¹

2022

Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse

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“…In those stories, Kurdish women hold a particular place. They are often framed as cultural others, as illiterate and risk-bearing, but also potentially dangerous for the political arithmetic of the country, similar to many other selectively pronatalist or antinatalist contexts around the world (Brunson 2020;Kanaaneh 2002;Singh 2020;Wilson 2018). Some sectors of Turkish society believe that Kurds are on a silent quest to replace Turks gradually through their "excessive" fertility.…”

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Datafied Pregnancies: Health Information Technologies and Reproductive Governance in Turkey

Saluk

2021

Med Anthropol Q

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Since the early 2000s, Turkey has been going through a dynamic period of health reforms where the global push toward health statistics has converged with the state's pronatalist concerns over declining birth rates. Reproductive behaviors are now monitored via health information technologies such as centralized databases. The World Health Organization and the Turkish Ministry of Health celebrate these technologies as essential steps toward evidence-based health care delivery. The everyday realities of these technologies, however, are more complicated, especially for nurses and their patients. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in state-run health clinics in Istanbul, this article demonstrates how these data-driven health technologies build on nurses' gendered care labor and increase surveillance on urban poor and/or ethnoracially minoritized communities. In doing so, I argue that the datafication of reproduction operates as a particular mode of "reproductive governance" (Morgan and Roberts 2012) that reflects and reproduces existing social hierarchies and inequalities.

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“…In new research, there is an exploration of how such stereotypical imagery of populations and people can lead to detrimental policy and medical interventions. 14 , 15 This paper seeks to address this lacuna by specifically focusing on infertility in rural India.…”

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“…There are two primary reasons for the focus on rural infertility through a mapping of pesticide use and impact: first, the limited engagement of the public sector with fertility care and management has been repeatedly noted. 16 , 17 In both statistics and policy framing, the reproductive health of marginal groups has been rendered invisible by “reproductive imageries”, such as target ethnic/ religious/economically disadvantaged women being identified as “hyperfertile”, 15 or those living in low-income settings 18 as targeted groups for population control and intrusive surgical interventions. 19 Research findings highlight that obstetric violence against women from disadvantaged groups is usually enacted through hospital staff who lack training in patient sensitivity.…”

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Thinking about infertility from a mixed-methods perspective: the need to look at toxicity in rural India

Majumdar

Qureshi

2021

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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Numbering others: Religious demography, identity, and fertility management experiences in contemporary India

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

‘I Feel Like Some Kind of Namoona’: Examining Sterilisation in Women's Abortion Trajectories in India

‘I Feel Like Some Kind of Namoona’: Examining Sterilisation in Women's Abortion Trajectories in India

Datafied Pregnancies: Health Information Technologies and Reproductive Governance in Turkey

Thinking about infertility from a mixed-methods perspective: the need to look at toxicity in rural India

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