{"product_id":"sex-pregnancy-and-abortion-among-unmarried-women-in-india","title":"Sex, Pregnancy, and Abortion among Unmarried Women in India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBased on 45 in-depth interviews offering first-hand accounts of the decisions and stigma attached to abortions among unmarried women in India, Janice Lazarus shows how \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrahmanical patriarchy influences abortion discourses and experiences, and in so doing, highlights how caste, class, and gender intersect with the legacies of India''s population-control and family-planning policies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an important contribution to the existing scholarship on sex and abortion in India--which focuses predominantly on married women, sex-selective abortions, and legal frameworks--the wealth of original stories Lazarus gathers here show, on a deeply personal level, what it means for unmarried women to engage in sex, get pregnant, and have abortions within the pervasive, ongoing patriarchal environment that considers out-of-marriage sex taboo. What comes out of all this is a picture of abortion stigma as a social process that is embedded in hierarchical social structures of caste, class, and gender, and that works as a mechanism to sustain and maintain these hierarchical systems. These findings are important for postgraduates, researchers, and policymakers interested in public heath, feminism, gender and sexuality, sociology, and development studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503715197301,"sku":"9781350577114","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/sex-pregnancy-and-abortion-among-unmarried-women-in-india","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}