Supporting Intellectually Disabled Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Qualitative Study With Support Workers in Aotearoa New Zealand

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dc.citation.volumeLatest Articles
dc.contributor.authorBloom O
dc.contributor.authorMorison T
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-01T03:10:14Z
dc.date.available2024-07-01T03:10:14Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-16
dc.description.abstractThis article presents findings from a qualitative study of support worker responses to intellectually disabled women’s sex and reproductive health. Drawing on reproductive justice theory, interviews with seven support workers from various disability service providers in New Zealand were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. The findings point to the persistence of a sexual risk discourse, which undermines progressive perspectives, including the rights-based approach that is usually advocated for in sexual and reproductive health, and ultimately constrains intellectually disabled women’s sexual agency. The value of a reproductive justice framework for countering risk-oriented framings in favor of a social justice perspective that expands the notions of individual rights is discussed. The findings support a growing global evidence base and have implications for national and international policy and practice.
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dc.edition.edition2023
dc.format.pagination1-21
dc.identifier.citationBloom O, Morison T. (2023). Supporting Intellectually Disabled Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Qualitative Study With Support Workers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Women's Reproductive Health. Latest Articles. (pp. 1-21).
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23293691.2023.2271897
dc.identifier.eissn2329-3713
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn2329-3691
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70053
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23293691.2023.2271897
dc.relation.isPartOfWomen's Reproductive Health
dc.rights(c) 2023 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectSexual and reproductive rights
dc.subjectintellectual disability
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectsupport workers
dc.subjectdiscourse
dc.titleSupporting Intellectually Disabled Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Qualitative Study With Support Workers in Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.typeJournal article
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