Households, Kinship and Access to Reproductive Health Care among Rural Muslim Women in Jaipur

Abstract

Reproductive health [1] practices among Muslim women in India have been little researched perhaps because of the widespread notion regarding the tight Islamic control over sexual behaviour and the sanctions against contraceptive use. A study of the rural Nagori Sunni community in Jaipur districts[2]as described in this paper revealed that while it is generally true that Nagori men and women in Sanganer do not in principle entertain the idea of a control on conception, nevertheless at an individual level this study finds, they seek out health services
for sterilisation is well as the medical termination of pregnancies. Most of their possibilities for seeking health care are not so much a function of general religious proscription as related to the organisation of Nagori household and kinship arrangements.