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  Medicalization, Reproductive Agency, and the Desire for Surgical Sterilization among Low-Income Women in Urban Brazil
 
 
Titel: Medicalization, Reproductive Agency, and the Desire for Surgical Sterilization among Low-Income Women in Urban Brazil
Auteur: De Bessa, Gina Hunter
Verschenen in: Medical anthropology
Paginering: Jaargang 25 (2006) nr. 3 pagina's 221-263
Jaar: 2006-09-01
Inhoud: This article draws on data from ethnographic fieldwork in an urban housing project to examine the social context and meanings of surgical sterilization for low-income women in Brazil. Low-income women resort to sterilization because they distrust or are unsatisfied with alternative methods and because it helps them to fulfill the requirements of modern, responsible motherhood. Although sterilization is an option among few alternatives, and one that has subjected women to greater medical management and intervention, I argue that sterilization also represents poor women's active struggle to improve their lives and to resist the burdens placed on them by unequal gender relations. This article contributes to a growing anthropological literature that demonstrates how reproduction has become a central site where social values are constituted and contested, and it details women's diverse responses to the process of medicalization.
Uitgever: Routledge
Bronbestand: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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