Context: The legal status of induced abortion helps determine the availability of safe,
affordable abortion services in a country, which in turn influences rates of maternal mortality …

In the first study of the kind, Susan Blackburn examines how Indonesian women have
engaged with the state since they began to organise a century ago. Voices from the …

In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam,
are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization …

this article explores changing attitudes towards courtship and marriage among educated
muslim javanese youth, as seen against the backdrop of islamic resurgence, growing …

This study examines the changing social and political context of adolescent sexual and
reproductive health policy in Indonesia. We describe how, in 2001, Indonesia was on the …

Objectives. To examine services offered by safe-abortion hotlines in contexts in which
abortion is legally restricted and to document the experiences of women contacting a safe …

Worldwide some 20 million unsafe abortions take place each year and account for
approximately 13% of all maternal mortality and serious complications associated with it …

This article investigates the history of women's relationship to political Islam in Indonesia
over the last century. It addresses three questions: how Islamic women have been politically …

Menstruation, seen alternately as something negative—a" curse" or a failed conception—or
as a positive part of the reproductive process to be celebrated as evidence of fertility, has …

Induced abortion is widely practised in Indonesia by both married and unmarried women.
This paper draws on ethnographic research, conducted between 1996 and 1998, which …