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Culture as a discursive resource opposing legal abortion

Catriona Macleod Psychology Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Nomakhosi Sigcau Psychology Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Pumeza Luwaca Psychology Department, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa
Pages 237-245 | Received 17 Sep 2009, Accepted 06 May 2010, Published online: 01 Aug 2011

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Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso. (2022) Engendering a Radical Abortion (Justice) Politics: The Struggle for Reproductive Freedom and Justice. Women's Reproductive Health 9:1, pages 37-44.
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Carrie Purcell, Karen Maxwell, Fiona Bloomer, Sam Rowlands & Lesley Hoggart. (2020) Toward normalising abortion: findings from a qualitative secondary analysis study. Culture, Health & Sexuality 22:12, pages 1349-1364.
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Catriona Ida Macleod. (2019) Expanding reproductive justice through a supportability reparative justice framework: the case of abortion in South Africa. Culture, Health & Sexuality 21:1, pages 46-62.
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Cliodhna O’Connor, Paul Maher & Irini Kadianaki. (2019) Exploring the relationship between lay theories of gender and attitudes to abortion in the context of a national referendum on abortion policy. PLOS ONE 14:6, pages e0218333.
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Catriona Macleod, Malvern Chiweshe & Jabulile Mavuso. (2016) A critical review of sanctioned knowledge production concerning abortion in Africa: Implications for feminist health psychology. Journal of Health Psychology 23:8, pages 1096-1109.
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Ernestina Coast, Alison H. Norris, Ann M. Moore & Emily Freeman. (2018) Trajectories of women's abortion-related care: A conceptual framework. Social Science & Medicine 200, pages 199-210.
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Rahul Sambaraju, Myles Sammon, Frank Harnett & Emma Douglas. (2017) ‘Her choice of course’: Negotiating legitimacy of ‘choice’ in abortion rights deliberations during the ‘Repeal the Eighth’ movement in Ireland. Journal of Health Psychology 23:2, pages 263-276.
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Malvern Chiweshe, Jabulile Mavuso & Catriona Macleod. (2017) Reproductive justice in context: South African and Zimbabwean women’s narratives of their abortion decision. Feminism & Psychology 27:2, pages 203-224.
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Catriona Ida Macleod. 2017. International Handbook on Adolescent Health and Development. International Handbook on Adolescent Health and Development 169 181 .
Jennifer J. Palmer & Katerini T. Storeng. (2016) Building the nation's body: The contested role of abortion and family planning in post-war South Sudan. Social Science & Medicine 168, pages 84-92.
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Alexandra Rutherford, Kate Sheese & Nora Ruck. 2015. The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 374 391 .
Catriona Macleod, Lebogang Seutlwadi & Gary Steele. (2014) Cracks in reproductive health rights: Buffalo City learners’ knowledge of abortion legislation. Health SA Gesondheid 19:1.
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