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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Gender scripts and unwanted pregnancy among urban Kenyan women
Culture, Health and Sexuality, Volume 13, No. 9, Year 2011
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Description
Women's lived experiences and lay accounts of unwanted pregnancy remain poorly interrogated. We investigated portrayals of unwanted pregnancy using narrative data gathered from 80 women in Nairobi, Kenya. Unwanted pregnancy had a diversity of significance for the women. Pregnancies were not simply unwanted because they occurred when women became pregnant without wanting to. Rather, pregnancies were considered unwanted largely because they had occurred in contexts that did not reinforce socially-sanctioned notions of motherhood and 'proper' procreation and/or revealed women's use of their sexuality in ways deemed culturally-inappropriate. Kenyan women's invocation of femininity scripts to explain unwanted pregnancy; the centrality of gender in everyday life in contemporary Kenya; women's and girls' poor access to effective family planning services; growing female poverty; and Kenya's restrictive abortion policy imply that unwanted pregnancy and its consequences will persist in the country. Addressing unwanted pregnancy and its consequences requires making accessible quality contraceptive and abortion services as well as sexuality information. It also calls for providers who understand the socio-cultural norms that circumscribe fertility and reproductive behaviours. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.
Authors & Co-Authors
Izugbara, Chimaraoke Otutubikey
Unknown Affiliation
Ochako, Rhoune
Unknown Affiliation
Izugbara, Chibuogwu
Unknown Affiliation
Statistics
Citations: 87
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/13691058.2011.598947
ISSN:
13691058
e-ISSN:
14645351
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Maternal And Child Health
Sexual And Reproductive Health
Study Design
Phenomenological Study
Narrative Study
Study Approach
Qualitative
Study Locations
Kenya
Participants Gender
Female