Andrea Whittaker

Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context - in Thailand, where over 200,000 to 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of methods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780415336529
• ISBN-10: 041533652X
• Artikelnr.: 22053388

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Bearing Politics 2. Abortion, Sin and the State 3. A
History of the Abortion Debate 4. Conceiving the Nation: Representations of
Abortion in Thailand 5. Corrupt Girls, Victims of Men, Desperate Women:
Representations of Women who Abort 6. 'A Small Sin': Everyday Acts 7. 'The
Truth of our Day by Day Lives': Situational Ethics 8. Global Debates, Local
Dilemmas