ArticleQualitative health research2017
Negotiating Collective and Individual Agency: A Qualitative Study of Young Women's Reproductive Health in Rural India.
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- Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Contraceptives Among Married Women of Rural Vellore.Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of India · 2022Article
- A summative content analysis of how programmes to improve the right to sexual and reproductive health address power.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Association between socioeconomic status and fertility among adolescents aged 15 to 19: an analysis of the 2013/2014 Zambia Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS).Reproductive health · 2021Article
- Women's perceptions and experiences of reproductive coercion and abuse: a qualitative evidence synthesis.PloS one · 2021Article
- Perinatal Grief Among Poor Rural and Urban Women in Central India.International journal of women's health · 2021Article
- Understanding Decision-Making and Decision Difficulty in Women With an Unintended Pregnancy in the Netherlands.Qualitative health research · 2019Article
- Association between tribal status and spacing contraceptive use in rural Maharashtra, India.Sexual & reproductive healthcare : official journal of the Swedish Association of Midwives · 2016Article
- "Who Wants to Go Repeatedly to the Hospital?" Perceptions and Experiences of Simplified Medical Abortion in Rajasthan, India.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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The societal changes in India and the available variety of reproductive health services call for evidence to inform health systems how to satisfy young women's reproductive health needs. Inspired by Foucault's power idiom and Bandura's agency framework, we explore young women's opportunities to practice reproductive agency in the context of collective social expectations. We carried out in-depth interviews with 19 young women in rural Rajasthan. Our findings highlight how changes in notions of agency across generations enable young women's reproductive intentions and desires, and call for effective means of reproductive control. However, the taboo around sex without the intention to reproduce made contraceptive use unfeasible. Instead, abortions were the preferred method for reproductive control. In conclusion, safe abortion is key, along with the need to address the taboo around sex to enable use of "modern" contraception. This approach could prevent unintended pregnancies and expand young women's agency.
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