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UN MASKING THE SOCIOCULTURAL PRECURSORS OF MISCARRIAGES VOICING THE UNHEARD

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2021(IV-I).05      10.31703/gasr.2021(IV-I).05      Published : Jun 1

Un Masking the Socio-Cultural Precursors of Miscarriages; Voicing the Unheard

Abstract

    Miscarriages are a trauma that devastates the social and family life of the sufferers. They create unexpected social and psychological problems concerning shakeup in endogamy, physical and mental torture, offensive diatribe from the family males and in-laws. Medical reasons like chromosomes abnormalities, uncontrolled growth of cells, and Rh factor, which are apparently evident in such serious conditions, are conveniently ignored and accepted as a natural process. Pakistan is a traditionalist society where miscarriages among women stem from malnourishment and a lack of basic body-enhancing ingredients. Added to this anomaly is the cruel system based on social discrimination, psychological pressures, political structure that does little for women rights, illiteracy, a cursed baradari system, and non-vibrant socio-economic system and an endless load of domestic labor, psychological and physical torture by the in-laws, deficient nutrition and indigenous healers who are more of quacks.

    Pregnancy, Un-Awareness, Reproductive Health, Uncertain Fears

    (1) Ghazala Idrees
    MPhil Scholar, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Idrees, Ghazala. 2021. "Un Masking the Socio-Cultural Precursors of Miscarriages; Voicing the Unheard." Global Anthropological Studies Review, IV (I): 35-46 doi: 10.31703/gasr.2021(IV-I).05

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