SUFFERING INFERTILITY: THE IMPACT OF INFERTILITY ON WOMEN'S LIFE EXPERIENCES IN TWO NIGERIAN COMMUNITIES
Autor: | Oka Obono, Bruce Whitehouse, Marida Hollos, Ulla Larsen |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Infertility medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Nigeria Fertility Article Interpersonal relationship Residence Characteristics Adaptation Psychological Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio medicine Humans Interpersonal Relations Sociology Anthropology Cultural Prejudice (legal term) Aged Demography media_common Aged 80 and over Sociobiology Social perception Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Social Sciences Middle Aged medicine.disease Health Surveys Social Perception Case-Control Studies Childlessness Multivariate Analysis Women's Health Female Prejudice Stress Psychological |
Zdroj: | Journal of Biosocial Science. 42:787-814 |
ISSN: | 1469-7599 0021-9320 |
DOI: | 10.1017/s0021932010000271 |
Popis: | SummaryThis paper examines the experiences of women with infertility in two Nigerian communities with different systems of descent and historically different levels of infertility. First, the paper focuses on the life experiences of individual women across the two communities and second, it compares these experiences with those of their fertile counterparts, in each community. In doing this, women who are childless are distinguished from those with subfertility and compared with high-fertility women. The research is based on interdisciplinary research conducted among the Ijo and Yakurr people of southern Nigeria, which included a survey of approximately 100 childless and subfertile women and a matching sample of 100 fertile women as well as in-depth ethnographic interviews with childless and subfertile women in two communities: Amakiri in Delta State and Lopon in Cross River State. The findings indicate that while there are variations in the extent to which childlessness is considered to be problematic, the necessity for a woman to have a child remains basic in this region. |
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