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“That’s Where Our Income Comes From”: Women’s Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing
Reproductive hardship is highly stigmatized, which leads to such struggles being relegated to the private sphere. At the same time, numerous studies show links between toxic chemicals and reproductive hardship including miscarriage, infertility, and birth defects. There thus exists a disconnection b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34055962 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.623222 |
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author | Murphy, Mollie K. Soyer, Mehmet Ziyanak, Sebahattin Godfrey, Taya |
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description | Reproductive hardship is highly stigmatized, which leads to such struggles being relegated to the private sphere. At the same time, numerous studies show links between toxic chemicals and reproductive hardship including miscarriage, infertility, and birth defects. There thus exists a disconnection between structural contributors to reproductive challenges and the fact that such hardship is frequently viewed as a personal problem. Considering this tension, this qualitative study sought to examine how women who had both experienced reproductive difficulty and lived proximal to hydraulic fracturing operations made sense of their experiences. Analysis revealed that participants emphasized hydraulic fracturing as economically essential at the same time that they tended to minimize fracking as a potential contributor to reproductive hardship. |
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spelling | pubmed-81554922021-05-28 “That’s Where Our Income Comes From”: Women’s Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing Murphy, Mollie K. Soyer, Mehmet Ziyanak, Sebahattin Godfrey, Taya Front Sociol Sociology Reproductive hardship is highly stigmatized, which leads to such struggles being relegated to the private sphere. At the same time, numerous studies show links between toxic chemicals and reproductive hardship including miscarriage, infertility, and birth defects. There thus exists a disconnection between structural contributors to reproductive challenges and the fact that such hardship is frequently viewed as a personal problem. Considering this tension, this qualitative study sought to examine how women who had both experienced reproductive difficulty and lived proximal to hydraulic fracturing operations made sense of their experiences. Analysis revealed that participants emphasized hydraulic fracturing as economically essential at the same time that they tended to minimize fracking as a potential contributor to reproductive hardship. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8155492/ /pubmed/34055962 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.623222 Text en Copyright © 2021 Murphy, Soyer, Ziyanak and Godfrey. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Murphy, Mollie K. Soyer, Mehmet Ziyanak, Sebahattin Godfrey, Taya “That’s Where Our Income Comes From”: Women’s Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing |
title | “That’s Where Our Income Comes From”: Women’s Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing |
title_full | “That’s Where Our Income Comes From”: Women’s Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing |
title_fullStr | “That’s Where Our Income Comes From”: Women’s Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing |
title_full_unstemmed | “That’s Where Our Income Comes From”: Women’s Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing |
title_short | “That’s Where Our Income Comes From”: Women’s Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing |
title_sort | “that’s where our income comes from”: women’s perceptions of links between reproductive struggles and hydraulic fracturing |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34055962 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.623222 |
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