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Gender, abortion and substantive representation in the South African newsprint media
- Feltham-King, Tracey, Macleod, Catriona
- Authors: Feltham-King, Tracey , Macleod, Catriona
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6306 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018222 , http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539515000680
- Description: Democratisation and abortion legislation transformation in South Africa provided a unique opportunity to reflect on the descriptive and substantive representation of women regarding abortion in the newsprint media. Using Celis and Childs' (2012) inductive approach, we conducted a content analysis of newspaper articles on abortion from 1978 to 2005 answering: ‘Who is called upon to comment on abortion issues?’; ‘From what position do these commentators contribute to the discussion?’; ‘What changes emerged around the transition to democracy?’ Our analysis revealed the distinctly gendered nature of substantive representation of abortion in the newsprint media, including: a bifurcation of positions taken by male and female commentators, with around two-thirds of women commentators substantively representing women through a pro-choice position; a consistency in the percentage of female commentators taking this position both before and after democratisation; and the socio-political changes shifting male commentators' perspectives from neutral or unstated positions to, mostly, a pro-life position. , Full text available on publisher website: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539515000680
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- Authors: Feltham-King, Tracey , Macleod, Catriona
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6306 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018222 , http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539515000680
- Description: Democratisation and abortion legislation transformation in South Africa provided a unique opportunity to reflect on the descriptive and substantive representation of women regarding abortion in the newsprint media. Using Celis and Childs' (2012) inductive approach, we conducted a content analysis of newspaper articles on abortion from 1978 to 2005 answering: ‘Who is called upon to comment on abortion issues?’; ‘From what position do these commentators contribute to the discussion?’; ‘What changes emerged around the transition to democracy?’ Our analysis revealed the distinctly gendered nature of substantive representation of abortion in the newsprint media, including: a bifurcation of positions taken by male and female commentators, with around two-thirds of women commentators substantively representing women through a pro-choice position; a consistency in the percentage of female commentators taking this position both before and after democratisation; and the socio-political changes shifting male commentators' perspectives from neutral or unstated positions to, mostly, a pro-life position. , Full text available on publisher website: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539515000680
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Negotiating access to the problematised subject:
- Bomela, Yolisa, Feltham-King, Tracey, Macleod, Catriona
- Authors: Bomela, Yolisa , Feltham-King, Tracey , Macleod, Catriona
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143816 , vital:38285 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: Our ethnography at public antenatal and postnatal clinics involved collecting data from a variety of sources constituting the reproductive healthcare nexus, including interviews with teenaged pregnant and mothering women. We discuss the complexities of trying to propose these interviews to the University ethics committee and difficulties in gaining access to the state healthcare facilities. We also consider a recurring disjuncture in our negotiations for access. The teenaged subject we imagined and anticipated in our research proposal contradicted the already problematized subject the gatekeepers assumed we were going to meet. Further, while our intention was to focus on the myriad aspects of the context which contributed to the construction of the reproductive teenaged subject, the enduring assumption was that our focus should and would be on the individual teenaged pregnant or mothering woman. We discuss balancing these contradictory assumptions and strategies to avoid re-inscribing the taken-for-granted existing institutional hierarchical power relations.
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- Authors: Bomela, Yolisa , Feltham-King, Tracey , Macleod, Catriona
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143816 , vital:38285 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: Our ethnography at public antenatal and postnatal clinics involved collecting data from a variety of sources constituting the reproductive healthcare nexus, including interviews with teenaged pregnant and mothering women. We discuss the complexities of trying to propose these interviews to the University ethics committee and difficulties in gaining access to the state healthcare facilities. We also consider a recurring disjuncture in our negotiations for access. The teenaged subject we imagined and anticipated in our research proposal contradicted the already problematized subject the gatekeepers assumed we were going to meet. Further, while our intention was to focus on the myriad aspects of the context which contributed to the construction of the reproductive teenaged subject, the enduring assumption was that our focus should and would be on the individual teenaged pregnant or mothering woman. We discuss balancing these contradictory assumptions and strategies to avoid re-inscribing the taken-for-granted existing institutional hierarchical power relations.
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