Who decides to have sex? Exploring the perceptions of Timorese women and men through a reproductive justice lens

@article{Wallace2019WhoDT,
  title={Who decides to have sex? Exploring the perceptions of Timorese women and men through a reproductive justice lens},
  author={Heather Julie Wallace and Susan Mcdonald and Suzanne Belton and Agueda Isolina Miranda and Eurico da Costa and Livio da Conceicao Matos and Helen Henderson and Angela Taft},
  journal={Culture, Health \& Sexuality},
  year={2019},
  volume={22},
  pages={112 - 127}
}
Abstract Despite national policies to support sexual rights, Timorese women are constrained when making sexual and reproductive health decisions. Contextual understanding of sexual decision making is vital for effective engagement by sexual and reproductive health service providers with communities. An intersectional reproductive justice approach broadens the sexual rights lens allowing for an examination of multi-system factors impacting on sexual rights and health. Using the Matrix of… 
View on Taylor & Francis
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
3 Citations

3 Citations

Women’s economic status and sexual negotiation: re-evaluation of the ‘normative precedent’ in Tanzania
  • S. Vyas
  • Sociology
    Culture, health & sexuality
  • 2019
TLDR
Using qualitative data among women in paid work and among men, this study explored interpersonal relations and sexual negotiation in Tanzania and found challenges to the normative precedent were evident, particularly among younger men.
Effectiveness of a peer education gender and health project for men in Timor-Leste.
TLDR
Peer education appears to be an effective model for engaging community members in gender and health issues in Timor-Leste and enabled men to participate in health awareness and issues regarding health, relationships and wellbeing.
Security from above and below: A critical ethnography of the health response to violence against women in Timor-Leste.

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 70 REFERENCES
The Catholic Church and reproductive health and rights in Timor-Leste: contestation, negotiation and cooperation
  • E. Richards
  • Political Science
    Culture, health & sexuality
  • 2015
TLDR
There is a need to prioritise the development of rights-based strategies to improve reproductive health services in Timor-Leste and the translation of Church teachings into practice, particularly by nuns, priests and Timorese men and women, reveal a range of attitudes and opinions.
Culturally constructed relationships shape sexual and reproductive health in Bolivia
This paper reports on findings from five studies on the ways in which culturally specific identities and relationships shape women's and men's attitudes towards, and experiences of, sexual and…
What influences a woman’s decision to access contraception in Timor-Leste? Perceptions from Timorese women and men
TLDR
Decolonising methodology was used to explore perceived influences contributing to contraceptive choices, and gain insight into how women’s decisions to access contraception in Timor-Leste occur, demonstrating that the decision to access contraceptive is often contentious and complicated.
Who decides? Women's status and negotiation of sex in Uganda
Women's ability to negotiate the timing and conditions of sex with their partners is central to their ability to control a variety of reproductive health outcomes. Focus group discussions and survey…
Sexual coercion and reproductive health: A focus on research
Gender-based violence has a direct impact on a range of womens reproductive health problems including adolescent pregnancy high-risk sexual behavior sexually transmitted diseases neonatal and…
The effect of power in sexual relationships on sexual and reproductive health: an examination of the evidence.
  • A. Blanc
  • Psychology
    Studies in family planning
  • 2001
TLDR
Results to date suggest that when the role of gender-based power is made an integral feature of sexual and reproductive health programs, there is a considerable payoff for both women and men.
Body Mapping to Explore Reproductive Ethno-Physiological Beliefs and Knowledge of Contraception in Timor-Leste
TLDR
It is demonstrated that body mapping is an effective method to traverse language and culture to gain emic insights and indigenous worldviews and may inform health service provision and engagement, ultimately improving the reproductive health of community members.
Factors that shape young people's sexual behaviour: a systematic review
Women's Perceptions and Experiences of Sexual Violence in Marital Relationships and Its Effect on Reproductive Health
TLDR
Results show sexual coercion and nonconsensual sex were common and not limited to abusive relationships, and Difficulties in negotiating safe sex resulted in unwanted pregnancies, some leading to unsafe abortions.
Domestic Violence, Marital Control, and Family Planning, Maternal, and Birth Outcomes in Timor-Leste
Abstract Patriarchal traditions and a history of armed conflict in Timor-Leste provide a context that facilitates violence against women. More than a third of ever-married Timorese women report…
...
...