Single women's experiences of premarital pregnancy and induced abortion in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia

Bennett, Linda Rae

doi:10.1016/s0968-8080(01)90006-0

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“…I believe this is in part due to recent improvements in the quality and accessibility of maternal health services in West Lombok, and also reflective of the fact that is not generally viewed as socially problematic for adolescent women to be pregnant in these communities provided that they are married. There is a relative absence of stigma associated with early pregnancy for young married women, which is in direct contrast to the extreme stigma attached to premarital pregnancy for single women (Bennett 2001). Previous research conducted in NTB in the late 1990's found that there was a dislike of bidan and a preference for seeking maternal care from belian (traditional birth attendants) or doctors .…”

Section: The Health Of Young Sasak Mothers and Their Childrenmentioning

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Early marriage, adolescent motherhood, and reproductive rights for young Sasak mothers in Lombok

Bennett¹

2013

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This article focuses on Indonesian adolescents who are wives and mothers, demonstrating how early marriage and adolescent motherhood are normative among women from poor Sasak communities in Western Lombok. It is based on ethnographic research with 28 young mothers that included focus group discussions, in depth interviews, and observations. Demographic and ethnographic data on the aetiology of early marriage and adolescent motherhood are discussed, and confirm that low educational attainment for girls, lack of employment prospects, poverty, and low levels of economic development are all associated with a higher probability of adolescent marriage and motherhood in Indonesia. The article also reveals how conservative sexual morality and local marriage customs can propel girls into early marriage. It provides a human rights analysis that demonstrates how early marriage and adolescent motherhood intersect with the neglect of girls' rights to education, employment, equality in marriage, health information, family planning, and maternal health.

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Early marriage, adolescent motherhood, and reproductive rights for young Sasak mothers in Lombok

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2013

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“…Yang et al (2007) argue that what is at stake for tainted individuals is honour within social networks by suggesting that stigma is 'fundamentally a moral issue in which stigmatised conditions threaten what really matters' (1528). In Indonesia and Ghana, women who seek an abortion before marriage may be labelled 'promiscuous' or worse and this taint can put their chances of marriage at risk (Bennett 2001, Lithur 2004.…”

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Conceptualising abortion stigma

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Hessini²,

Mitchell

2009

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Abortion stigma is widely acknowledged in many countries, but poorly theorised. Although media accounts often evoke abortion stigma as a universal social fact, we suggest that the social production of abortion stigma is profoundly local. Abortion stigma is neither natural nor 'essential' and relies upon power disparities and inequalities for its formation. In this paper, we identify social and political processes that favour the emergence, perpetuation and normalisation of abortion stigma. We hypothesise that abortion transgresses three cherished 'feminine' ideals: perpetual fecundity; the inevitability of motherhood; and instinctive nurturing. We offer examples of how abortion stigma is generated through popular and medical discourses, government and political structures, institutions, communities and via personal interactions. Finally, we propose a research agenda to reveal, measure and map the diverse manifestations of abortion stigma and its impact on women's health.

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“…They highlight that the sexual oppression of single women in Eastern Indonesia is not absolute, and is constantly challenged through women's everyday practices and embodied expressions of desire. However, despite the fluidity with which sexual autonomy can be understood by young women, the fact that they must express their sexual autonomy in private-in order to maintain a good reputation-has serious implications in terms of young women's ability to access reproductive health services (see Bennett 2001). The desire for privacy deters single women from accessing contraception and safe abortion services, and is contributes considerably to single women's preference for dangerous popular forms of induced abortion that do not require them to attend health services.…”

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Patterns of resistance and transgression in Eastern Indonesia: Single women's practices of clandestine courtship and cohabitation

Bennett

2005

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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This paper explores how single women in the regional Indonesian city of Mataram express sexual desire in a social, cultural and political climate that idealizes the confinement of female sexuality within marriage. It is based on 21 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted with single women, their families and health care providers. Success for young women in negotiating sexual desire is dependent upon their ability to maintain a faultless public reputation and mediate between their desires and those of men. Many single women find ways to pursue their desires by bending the rules of courtship conventions, performing sexual purity in public, while resisting from within the hegemonic sexual culture. However, women who visibly transgress dominant sexual ideals (and in doing so offend the status quo) are stigmatized and ostracized. Single women's practice of resistance and sexual transgression in premarital relationships are represented using the examples of pacaran backstreet (clandestine courtship) and cohabitation prior to marriage.

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Single women's experiences of premarital pregnancy and induced abortion in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia

Cited by 61 publications

References 3 publications

Early marriage, adolescent motherhood, and reproductive rights for young Sasak mothers in Lombok

Early marriage, adolescent motherhood, and reproductive rights for young Sasak mothers in Lombok

Conceptualising abortion stigma

Patterns of resistance and transgression in Eastern Indonesia: Single women's practices of clandestine courtship and cohabitation

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