title: Breaking the silence on abortion: the role of adult community abortion education in fostering resistance to norms.
abstract: Meanings of abortion in society are constructed within sociohistorical and gendered spaces and manifested through myriad discourses that impact on the perception and treatment of the issue in that society. In societies with powerful oppressive anti-abortion norms, such as Northern Ireland, little is known as to how these norms are resisted by the adult population. This study uses a Foucauldian feminist approach to show how resistance to religious and patriarchal norms can be fostered through adult community abortion education. This resistance is multi-faceted and bolstered by a lived experience discourse, which does not necessarily involve eschewing religious notions held within society.
authors.affiliation: a Institute for Research in Social Sciences , University of Ulster , Newtownabbey , UK.
authors.forename: Fiona K
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3347-6403
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Bloomer
authors.affiliation: b Trademark , Belfast , UK.
authors.forename: Kellie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: O'Dowd
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychology , Rhodes University , Grahamstown , South Africa.
authors.forename: Catriona
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0992-3525
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Macleod
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009660:Northern Ireland; D011057:Politics; D011247:Pregnancy; D012938:Social Perception
keywords: Abortion; Northern Ireland; abortion education; patriarchy; religion; sex and relationship education