Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, USA.
Med Anthropol Q. 2011 Dec;25(4):417-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01178.x.
Often it is understood that Islam prohibits family planning because the Qur'an does not explicitly address contraception. Public health and development officials have recently congratulated the Muslim world for decreases in fertility given the supposed constraints placed on reproductive healthcare by Islam, while popular culture writers have warned the West of threats by young Muslims if the population goes uncontrolled. This article draws on data collected through interviews with working-class women seeking reproductive healthcare at clinics in Rabat, Morocco, and with medical providers to challenge the link between Islamic ideology and reproductive practices and the correlation among Islam, poverty, and fertility. Morocco, a predominantly Muslim country, has experienced a dramatic decrease in fertility between the 1970s and today. I argue that patients and providers give new meanings to modern reproductive practices and produce new discourses of reproduction and motherhood that converge popular understandings of Islam with economic conditions of the Moroccan working class.
人们通常认为伊斯兰教禁止计划生育，因为《古兰经》并没有明确提到避孕。最近，公共卫生和发展官员祝贺穆斯林世界生育率下降，因为伊斯兰教据称对生殖保健施加了限制，而流行文化作家则警告西方，如果人口不受控制，年轻的穆斯林会构成威胁。本文通过对在摩洛哥拉巴特的诊所寻求生殖保健的工人阶级妇女以及医疗服务提供者进行访谈收集的数据，挑战了伊斯兰意识形态与生殖实践之间的联系，以及伊斯兰教、贫困和生育率之间的相关性。摩洛哥是一个以穆斯林为主的国家，其生育率在 20 世纪 70 年代至今天经历了急剧下降。我认为，患者和提供者赋予了现代生殖实践新的意义，并产生了新的生殖和母性话语，将伊斯兰教的通俗理解与摩洛哥工人阶级的经济条件结合起来。
