'The truth of our day by day lives': abortion decision making in rural Thailand
'The truth of our day by day lives': abortion decision making in rural Thailand
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10.1080/136910502753389350
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发表时间：
2002-01-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Whittaker, A
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作者：
Whittaker, A
必须在更广泛的经济、社会和意识形态背景下理解泰国农村村民的堕胎决策。泰国的堕胎法非常严格，但堕胎仍然很常见。本文探讨了农村村民对堕胎行为的规范建构，以及他们在堕胎讨论中引入的“社会道德”。该论文基于与女性和男性进行的七次焦点小组讨论以及在泰国北部农村进行的长期民族志实地考察。基于妇女真实故事的小插曲激发了焦点小组对堕胎可接受的情况的详细讨论。本文首先讨论了泰国堕胎的社会建构、佛教罪恶中堕胎的定义以及胎儿的民族医学分类。然后描述了关于堕胎决策的焦点小组讨论和访谈中出现的主要主题。人们发现，妇女和男子生活的物质条件、儿童和母性结构的变化以及性别关系都会影响生殖健康决策。堕胎是通过社会习语来描述的，这些习语使村民能够将堕胎的做法与可接受的社会规范相协调。
Abortion decision making by rural villagers in Thailand must be understood within its broader economic, social and ideological context. Abortion laws are highly restrictive in Thailand, yet abortions remain common. This paper examines rural villagers' normative constructions of the act of abortion and the 'socially embedded morality' they bring to discussions about abortion. The paper is based upon seven focus group discussions with women and men and long-term ethnographic fieldwork in rural north-cast Thailand. Vignettes based upon real stories of women stimulated detailed discussion in the focus groups of the circumstances under which abortion is acceptable. The paper first discusses the social construction of abortion in Thailand, definitions of abortion as Buddhist sin and ethnomedical categorizations of the foetus. Then it describes the major themes that emerged from focus group discussions and interviews on abortion decision making. The material conditions of women and men's lives, changing constructions of children and motherhood, and gender relations were all found to influence reproductive health decisions. Abortion is described through social idioms that allow villagers to reconcile the practice of abortion with acceptable social norms.