Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand
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Abortion Debate
Abortion Law Reform
Abortion Rhetoric
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Free Abortion
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HIV Positive Woman
ICPD Programme
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Illegal Abortion
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Mechai Viravaidya
media representations
Mexico City Policy
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qualitative fieldwork
Raid
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reproductive decision making in Thailand
Reproductive Health Services
reproductive rights
Restrictive Abortion Laws
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Thai legal system
Thai Politics
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Unplanned Pregnancies
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415336529
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context - in Thailand, where over 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of methods. The book, based on extensive original research in the field, examines a wide range of issues, including stories of the real-life dilemmas facing women, popular representations of abortion in the media, the history of the debate in Thailand and its links to politics. Overall, the work highlights the voices of women and their subjective experiences and perceptions of abortion, and places these 'women's stories' in an analysis of broader socio-political gender and power relations that structure sexuality and women's reproductive health decisions.
Andrea Whittaker is a Joint Lecturer at the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society and the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne. She is a medical anthropologist whose primary research interests relate to reproductive health, gender, and development in Thailand and Australia. Her previous books include Intimate Knowledge: Women and their health in Northeast Thailand.
