Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women in Africa and the Caribbean

Linking the Two Regions

Zainab Monisola Olaitan, Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo, Shakira Maxwell

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031960284
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031960291
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

In a time of global backlash against women's rights and gender issues, this book echoes the importance of protecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women by conceptualising and analysing relevant sexual and reproductive health rights issues (SRHR) in Africa and the Caribbean. It examines the linkages that exist around SRHR issues between the two regions and how this understanding can help to support the protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights both in Africa and the Caribbean. It focuses on providing historical, conceptual and contxtual understandings of SRHR issues in the African continent and the Caribbean region. The main topics engage theoretical and contemporary issues, e.g., limitations to the single use of courts as avenues for reducing obstetric violence, abortion rights, maternal mortality, gender-based violence, and adolescent sexuality. The book presents diverse perspectives in the examination of SRHR issues by offering legal, socio-political, and medical frameworks for analysing and understanding sexual and reproductive health and rights. It further contributes to the discourse and strategies to protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and men to improve both women’s and men’s quality of life/well-being and to also achieve gender equality.

Table of contents

• African Histories and Modernities
• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women in Africa and the Caribbean
• Preface
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Praise for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women in Africa and the Caribbean
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa and the Caribbean
• 2. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women: A Descriptive Analysis
• 3. Autocentric Ubuntu and Sexual-Reproductive Health Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 4. Literature Review: Evidence-Based Interventions and Policy Implementation for SRHR and GBV in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa
• 5. In Search of Elusive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Commercial Sex Workers in Lesotho: An Examination
• 6. Legal Answer for a Socio-political Question: Informed Consent and the Limits of Judicial Relief for Obstetric Violence Cases in Kenya
• 7. Exploring the Intersectionality of Internal Displacement and Gender-Based Violence in Africa
• 8. Engaging Men in the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights of Women in Africa: Case Studies of Nigeria and Chad
• 9. Reproductive Rights in Crisis: Addressing Family Planning Needs Among Internally Displaced Women in North-Central Nigeria, West Africa
• 10. Dynamics of Violent Conflict and Gender-Based Violence in Africa
• 11. Women of Childbearing Age’s Challenges in Accessing Maternal Healthcare: A Case of Zimbabwe’s Makonde District
• 12. “The worst is when you have to review the death of a baby”: The Experiences of District Clinical Specialist Team Members During the National Health Insurance Pilot Programme in the Tshwane District
• 13. Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Women with Disabilities (WWDs) in Africa: A Systematic Review
• 14. Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Policy Integration for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
• 15. Influence of Sociocultural Norms on Informed Consent for Caesarean Section in Nigeria
• 16. Women and Mental Health During Pregnancy: The Case of Ruwa, Harare East District, Zimbabwe
• 17. Honouring the Humanity of Women: Considerations on Moving from Harm to Help and Healing Reproductive Health and Rights in Jamaica
• 18. Comprehensive Sexual Education for Adolescents and Youth: A Comparative Perspective of Kenya and Cuba
• 19. The Politics of Menstrual Stigmas and Taboos: Integrating Menstrual Health and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights in Africa and the Caribbean Region
• 20. When Two Became the Right Thing to Do: The Development and Implementation of the Family Planning Policy in Jamaica
• Index1