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Childlessness in Bangladesh: Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience book cover

1st Edition

Childlessness in Bangladesh Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience

By Papreen Nahar Copyright 2022
228 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the intersectionality and stratified lived experience of rural poor and urban middle-class childless women in Bangladesh. Childless women in Bangladesh, an over-populated country where fertility control is the primary focus of health policy, are all but non-existent. Papreen Nahar offers an alarming account of stigma, abuse, ostracism and violence against these women,... Read more

Prelude: Two cases of childless women from Bangladesh

Hiramon’s story

Normoda’s story

1 Introduction

2 The motherhood question

3 Consequences of childlessness

4 Social and cultural construction of childlessness

5 Journey to conception

6 Services, programs and policies concerning infertility

7 Childless women’s resistance to their situations

8 Notes on methodology

9 Concluding remarks

Epilogue

Bibliography

Appendices

Abbreviations

Biography

Papreen Nahar is a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology and Global Health based in the Department of Global Health and Infection at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on gender issues and marginalised populations, including on infertility, in low- and middle-income contexts in the global south.

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