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CATHOLICISM AND EVERYDAY MORALITY: Filipino women’s narratives on reproductive health.

Authors :
Natividad, Maria Dulce F.
Source :
Global Public Health. Jan2019, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p37-52. 16p.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between state policies, religion, reproductive politics, and competing understandings of embodied sexual and reproductive morality. Using ethnographic and life history interviews, this study looks at the lives of Filipino urban poor women and how they interpret, follow and resist Catholic Church doctrines and practices as these relate to sexuality and reproduction. Taking everyday morality as embedded in social practice, this paper argues that women’s subjective reinterpretations of Catholic teachings regarding contraception and abortion render religion pliant in a way that restores moral equilibrium in women’s lives. It is in this process of adjusting and re-adjusting this moral order that women are able to construct their moral worlds. Further, this article investigates how social class, gender and religion work in tension with one another in women’s everyday decisions and how the constraints and opportunities that poor women encounter in their everyday lives are enabled by the state and its institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
17441692
Volume :
14
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Global Public Health
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
133102330
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2018.1471145