Essays about: "Reproductive health"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 215 essays containing the words Reproductive health.

1. 16. “I give birth through my vagina and not my legs” - Ethiopian women with disabilities share their challenges in access to sexual and reproductive health services

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

   Author : Matilda Hertell; [2022-11-25]
   Keywords : women with disability; sexual and reproductive health; ethiopia; challenges in accessibility; focus groups;

   Abstract : The research aim was to learn more of the actual experiences women with disabilities have of their access to sexual and reproductive health services. Another purpose was to contribute more to the current literature due to a lack of research regarding the women’s own perspective. READ MORE

3. 17. Effects of the neoliberal agenda on abortion policy and sexual rights in Poland and Ireland. A Comparative Feminist Global Political Economy analysis

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Moa Berglund; [2022-04-29]
   Keywords : Feminist Global Political Economy; Abortion Policy; SRHR; Poland; ; Ireland; ; Process-Tracing;

   Abstract : In Europe, abortion policy shifts drastically across the region despite the EU´s efforts to make it equally accessible. The differences in access to abortion are often connected to the level of religious impact on the government, and Roman Catholicism is often viewed as the villain when an EU country restricts its abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) policies. READ MORE

4. 18. Reproduction and Resistance : Female Bodies and Agency in the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

   Author : Lucrezia Giordano; [2022]
   Keywords : ation; reproduction; female body; collective processes; reproductive health; agency; decolonial feminism; resistance;

   Abstract : This study sets out to investigate Sahrawi women’s understanding of maternities as bodily and embodied experiences of collective and individual resistance within the Sahrawi liberation struggle against the occupation of Western Sahara. By using the Sahrawi liberation front’s pronatalist politics as a starting point to explore Sahrawi women’s positioning in the liminal space between reproductive health and biological reproduction as a socio-political action, I draw on a decolonial understanding of agency to analyse the relationship between individual health and collective resistance – especially in correlation with the increase of humanitarian projects targeting sexual and reproductive health. READ MORE

5. 19. The Effects of Fertility on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Women’s Bargaining Power - Evidence from Nigeria

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Isabella Rego Monteiro; [2022]
   Keywords : fertility; reproductive behavior; female empowerment; bargaining power; development; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper analyzes the impact of reproductive outcomes on women's participation in their family's decision-making and on the share of the household's resources allocated to them. It also examines the effects on labor, time use, and health-related outcomes. READ MORE

6. 20. The effects of female genital mutilation among teenage girls and young women in Nigeria.

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Rita Keredei; [2022]
   Keywords : Female Genital Cutting FGC ; Non-governmental organisation NGO ; perception; legislation; awareness; Gender-Based Violence GBV ; practice; UNICEF; World Health Organisation WHO ; traditional; women; health; girls; circumcision.;

   Abstract : Female genital cutting is a problem that has taken several dimensions and continues to be practiced despite enormous efforts and resources invested by governments,non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders to ensure that the practice is discontinued worldwide. This study was conducted with the primary objective of assessing the views and perceptions of NGOs on the practice of female genital cutting in Nigeria. READ MORE