Conceptualising abortion stigma

By A. Kumar, L. Hessini, E. Mitchell. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2009

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Internalised abortion stigma: Young women’s strategies of resistance and rejection (2017, background): “It has been argued that socio-economic and cultural contexts, particularly gendered norms, influence abortion stigmatisation and that women who have an abortion are stigmatised because they are transgressing gendered ideals of women’s sexuality and motherhood (Kumar et al., 2009).”
• “I'm Not That Type of Person”: Managing the Stigma of Having an Abortion (2013, background): “974 K. COCKRILL AND A. NACK archetypes that inform cultural meanings of pregnancy termination (Luker 1984), including archetypal constructs of the ‘‘feminine,’’ of procreative female sexuality, and of women’s innate desire to be a mother (Kumar et al. 2009).”
• The Stigma Complex (2015, background): “…and relationship issues, e.g., singlehood (Byrne & Carr 2005), voluntary childlessness (Park 2002), infertility (Donkor & Sandall 2007), abortion (Kumar et al. 2009), family leave (Rudman & Mescher 2013), sexual orientation (Herek 2004); the uptake of social benefits, e.g., Medicaid (Palmer et…”