The Vocabulary of Reproductive Health

Alaka Malwade Basu ()
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Alaka Malwade Basu: Cornell University, Department of Developmental Sociology

Chapter Chapter 2 in Critical Issues in Reproductive Health, 2014, pp 21-34 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A Bengali speaking acquaintance who volunteers at a health centre for Bangladeshi immigrants in East London likes to tell the following story. She once explained in great detail the mechanics of taking the contraceptive pill to the wife in a couple that had come to the clinic for birth control help. Several weeks later, the couple was back, greatly upset that the wife was pregnant. When my acquaintance asked if the pill taking instructions had been strictly followed, the husband took umbrage at her suspicious questioning and declared that he had been most particular about taking the pill with breakfast every morning for 3 weeks and beginning the cycle again after a gap of 1 week. In other words, he had manfully assumed that my friend’s advice had been meant for him as he was the household head, and that she had been looking at his wife as she spoke only because she was a well-brought up South Asian woman who did not lock eyes with strange men.

Keywords: Reproductive Health; Vaginal Discharge; South Asian Woman; Heavy Menstrual Bleeding; Reproductive Health Issue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6722-5_2

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