“Who will marry a diseased girl?”: Marriage, gender and tuberculosis stigma in Asia
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Hatherall, B., Newell, James N, Emmel, Nick, Baral, Sushil Chandra and Khan, Muhammad Amir 2018. “Who will marry a diseased girl?”: Marriage, gender and tuberculosis stigma in Asia. Qualitative Health Research. 29 (8), pp. 1109-1119. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318812427
Authors | Hatherall, B., Newell, James N, Emmel, Nick, Baral, Sushil Chandra and Khan, Muhammad Amir |
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Abstract | In a qualitative study on the stigma associated with tuberculosis (TB), involving 73 interviews and eight focus groups conducted in five sites across three countries (Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan), participants spoke of TB’s negative impact on the marriage prospects of women in particular. Combining the approach to discovering grounded theory with a conceptualisation of causality based on a realist ontology, we developed a theory to explain the relationships between TB, gender and marriage. The mechanism at the heart of the theory is TB’s disruptiveness to the gendered roles of wife (or daughter-in-law) and mother. It is this disruptiveness which gives legitimacy to the rejection of marriage to a woman with TB. Whether or not this mechanism results in a negative impact of TB on marriage prospects depends on a range of contextual factors, providing opportunities for interventions and policies. |
Journal | Qualitative Health Research |
Journal citation | 29 (8), pp. 1109-1119 |
ISSN | 1049-7323 |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Repository staff only |
Publisher's version | License |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318812427 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318812427 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 30 Nov 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 02 Nov 2018 |
Accepted | 18 Oct 2018 |
Accepted | 18 Oct 2018 |
Funder | Economic and Social Research Council |
Department for International Development | |
Economic and Social Research Council | |
Department for International Development | |
Copyright information | © 2018 The authors. |
License | CC BY 4.0 |
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