a Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction Research Programme, Department of Psychology , Rhodes University , Grahamstown , South Africa.
Cult Health Sex. 2013;15(8):997-1010. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2013.802815. Epub 2013 Jun 14.
Discursive constructions of abortion are embedded in the social and gendered power relations of a particular socio-historical space. As part of research on public discourses concerning abortion in South Africa where there has been a radical liberalisation of abortion legislation, we collected data from male group discussions about a vignette concerning abortion, and newspaper articles written by men about abortion. Our analysis revealed how discourses of equality, support and rights may be used by men to subtly undermine women's reproductive right to 'choose' an abortion. Within an Equal Partnership discourse, abortion, paired with the assumption of foetal personhood, was equated with violating an equal heterosexual partnership and a man's patriarchal duty to protect a child. A New Man discourse, which positions men as supportive of women, was paired with the assumption of men as rational and women as irrational in decision-making, to allow for the possibility of men dissuading women from terminating a pregnancy. A Rights discourse was invoked to suggest that abortion violates men's paternal rights.
关于堕胎的论述结构根植于特定社会历史空间中的社会和性别权力关系。在南非有关堕胎的公共话语研究的一部分中，堕胎立法发生了激进的自由化，我们从男性小组讨论有关堕胎的情景介绍和男性撰写的有关堕胎的报纸文章中收集了数据。我们的分析揭示了平等、支持和权利的论述如何被男性用来微妙地破坏妇女堕胎的生殖权利。在平等伙伴关系的论述中，堕胎与胎儿人格的假设相提并论，被等同于违反平等的异性恋伙伴关系和男性保护孩子的家长式责任。新男性的论述将男性描绘为支持女性的角色，同时假设男性在决策中是理性的，而女性是不理性的，从而允许男性劝阻女性终止妊娠。权利论述被援引，暗示堕胎侵犯了男性的亲权。
