The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how the experience of reproductive loss impacts African American women residing in West Virginia. For the purposes of this study the term reproductive loss (Wenzel, 2014) was expanded to include abortion experiences to capture…
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This study explores women’s experiences with infertility in Christian faith communities. Drawing from nine one-on-one interviews, the author argues that the presence of particular religious ideologies, social interactions, and rituals within faith communities contributed to the …
This study examines the role the first cohorts of women physicians in the United States played in shaping the medical subfields of obstetrics and gynecology. Women were trained largely to provide clinical care for women patients in the mid- to late- nineteenth century, yet they …
In Taiwan, abortion ritual attempts to appease or rescue Yingling (fetus spirits), who are the spirits of fetuses that have died from abortions or miscarriages. Within most contemporary religious discourse, abortion is seen as an inappropriate means of ending a life. Yingling ar…
This thesis examines how young, married, heterosexual Christian couples talk about and make sense of pregnancy loss, specifically loss before the twentieth week. Studies of pregnancy loss often focus on individual differences in response to pregnancy loss, but this research enga…