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The Vocabulary of Reproductive Health

In: Critical Issues in Reproductive Health

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  • Alaka Malwade Basu

    (Cornell University, Department of Developmental Sociology)

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.

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  • Alaka Malwade Basu, 2014. "The Vocabulary of Reproductive Health," The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, in: Andrzej Kulczycki (ed.), Critical Issues in Reproductive Health, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 21-34, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-94-007-6722-5_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6722-5_2
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