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Estudios demográficos y urbanos
On-line version ISSN 2448-6515Print version ISSN 0186-7210
Abstract
RIVAS, M. Georgina et al. Violence, Contraception and Unwanted Pregnancy Indigenous Women in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2009, vol.24, n.3, pp.615-651. ISSN 2448-6515. https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v24i3.1330.
This study is part of a qualitative research project conducted in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Interviews with immigrant indigenous women are used to show the influence of social marginalization as well as men’s abuse of power in the origin of unwanted pregnancy. The overvaluation of male knowledge, the expectation of forming a union as a social mandate and as a survival strategy and the violence suffered by women throughout their lie cycle determines their acceptance of sexual relations with scant contraceptive protection.
Keywords : power; violence; vulnerability; unwanted pregnancy; abortion; indigenous women; migration.