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Relational, Ableist and Gendered Sites of Violence : Perspectives of Tanzanian Girls With Disabilities on Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services (2024)

Mesiäislehto, V. (2024). Relational, Ableist and Gendered Sites of Violence : Perspectives of Tanzanian Girls With Disabilities on Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services. Forum for Development Studies, 51(1), 25-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2023.2264857

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Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Mesiäislehto, Virpi

Lehti tai sarja: Forum for Development Studies

ISSN: 0803-9410

eISSN: 1891-1765

Julkaisuvuosi: 2024

Ilmestymispäivä: 04.10.2023

Volyymi: 51

Lehden numero: 1

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 25-47

Kustantaja: Routledge

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2023.2264857

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Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/89505

Tiivistelmä

Adolescent girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health services is a critical development issue in Tanzania where the intersection of disability and adolescence is compounded by barriers to sexual and reproductive health service access and socially normalised gender-based violence. Using the method of empathy-based stories, I explored the perceptions of 136 Tanzanian adolescent girls with disabilities of how gender-based violence and access to sexual and reproductive health services are intertwined. The findings demonstrate that the intersection of disability and adolescence within sexual and reproductive health services render invisible various forms of violence, which are not only gendered but also ableist. Recognising access to sexual and reproductive health services as a distinct site of violence and addressing the issue in relevant policies and programmes could strengthen the sexual and reproductive health of girls with disabilities. Through an Afrocentric perspective, the findings contribute to the current theoretical constructs used to study disability and development. They call for a reconsideration of relational dynamics in the context of accessible and protected sexual and reproductive health services.

YSO-asiasanat: sukupuoleen perustuva häirintä; seksuaaliterveys; lisääntymisterveys; seksuaalioikeudet; terveyspalvelut; nuoret; vammaisuus

Vapaat asiasanat: Tansania

Liittyvät organisaatiot

OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

VIRTA-lähetysvuosi: 2023

JUFO-taso: 1