Feminization and Stigmatization of Infertility in Malawi

• Autor principal: Boetumelo Julianne Nyasulu (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Graduate Institute Publications
• Assuntos: Humanities; stigma; sociology; discrimination; infertility; women
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The World Health Organization defines infertility as the inability to conceive after 12 months of regular and unprotected sex (WHO, 1975). Despite research that has shown that 50 per cent of infertility cases can be attributed to the male partner, in many societies the blame is cast on the woman, he...