This paper advances understanding of the consequences of female infertility in sub-Saharan Africa on the individual level. It illustrates how local meanings of infertility are shaped by the social and cultural context and how they influence the life experiences and coping behaviours of infertile women in an Ijo community in the Niger Delta. Infertility in Amakiri is a stigma. Barren women cannot attain full womanhood and join appropriate age associations since they cannot be circumcised without having given birth. Uncircumcised women cannot be buried within the town, rather, their corpses are buried in a designated forest. The paper is based on over twenty years of ethnographic field work, a complete census of one of the town's quarters to ...
IntroductionWomen with infertility have different experiences that determine the quality of their ps...
problem in Africa (Boerma & Mgalla, 2001; Feldman-Salvesberg, 1999; Inhorn & van Balen, 2002...
Infertility is a health as well as a social problem judging from the perspective of the individual c...
This paper advances understanding of the consequences of female infertility in sub-Saharan Africa on...
This paper examines how socio-economic contexts shape local meanings of infertility, how the prevale...
This paper discusses the main qualitative results of an investigation into the meanings and conseque...
Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, ec...
Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, ec...
Background: This study examined the meaning of infertility from layman's perspective, and experience...
There has been very little documentation of the social meaning given to infertility in many developi...
Background: Infertility has been described as one of the most important reproductive health concerns...
A paradox in the demographic and epidemiological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa is that as popula...
The Yoruba of southwest Nigeria believe that infertility can be due to spittle problems, for which o...
Abstract Background There is an increasing awareness that infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa constitu...
Infertility, though a global reproductive problem, is uniquely constructed within different socio-cu...
IntroductionWomen with infertility have different experiences that determine the quality of their ps...
problem in Africa (Boerma & Mgalla, 2001; Feldman-Salvesberg, 1999; Inhorn & van Balen, 2002...
Infertility is a health as well as a social problem judging from the perspective of the individual c...
This paper advances understanding of the consequences of female infertility in sub-Saharan Africa on...
This paper examines how socio-economic contexts shape local meanings of infertility, how the prevale...
This paper discusses the main qualitative results of an investigation into the meanings and conseque...
Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, ec...
Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, ec...
Background: This study examined the meaning of infertility from layman's perspective, and experience...
There has been very little documentation of the social meaning given to infertility in many developi...
Background: Infertility has been described as one of the most important reproductive health concerns...
A paradox in the demographic and epidemiological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa is that as popula...
The Yoruba of southwest Nigeria believe that infertility can be due to spittle problems, for which o...
Abstract Background There is an increasing awareness that infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa constitu...
Infertility, though a global reproductive problem, is uniquely constructed within different socio-cu...
IntroductionWomen with infertility have different experiences that determine the quality of their ps...
problem in Africa (Boerma & Mgalla, 2001; Feldman-Salvesberg, 1999; Inhorn & van Balen, 2002...
Infertility is a health as well as a social problem judging from the perspective of the individual c...