A critical review of sanctioned knowledge production concerning abortion in Africa: Implications for feminist health psychology

Macleod, Catriona I; Chiweshe, Malvern T; Mavuso, Jabulile M-J J

Title: A critical review of sanctioned knowledge production concerning abortion in Africa: Implications for feminist health psychology
Creator: Macleod, Catriona I
Creator: Chiweshe, Malvern T
Creator: Mavuso, Jabulile M-J J
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2018
Date: 2018
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/444212
Identifier: vital:74207
Identifier: xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316644294"
Description: Taking a feminist health psychology approach, we conducted a systematic review of published research on abortion featured in PsycINFO over a 7-year period. We analysed the 39 articles included in the review in terms of countries in which the research was conducted, types of research, issues covered, the way the research was framed and main findings. Despite 97per cent of abortions performed in Africa being classifiable as unsafe, there has been no engagement in knowledge production about abortion in Africa from psychologists, outside of South Africa. Given this, we outline the implications of the current knowledge base for feminism, psychology and feminist health psychology in Africa.
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Format: online resource
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Format: 1 online resource (14 pages)
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Publisher: SAGE
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Health Psychology
Relation: Macleod, C., Chiweshe, M. and Mavuso, J., 2018. A critical review of sanctioned knowledge production concerning abortion in Africa: Implications for feminist health psychology. Journal of health psychology, 23(8), pp.1096-1109
Relation: Journal of Health Psychology volume 23 number 8 p. 1096 2018 1461-7277
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