Publications: Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalisation, health impacts and game changers

Forthcoming:

• Maffi, I., Tønnessen, L. (2023). Abortion, law and health in the Arab world. In M. Ziegler Research Handbook on International Abortion Law. Edwin Elgar Press.
• Maffi, I., Gherissi, A. (2023). Abortion in Tunisia. In C. Ngwena, E. Durojaye, Nkatha Murungi, S. Nabaneh (eds.) Abortion Law, Policy and Practice in the African Region: Interrogating Reforms from a Reproductive Health and Rights Perspetive. Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press.
• Nabaneh, S. (2023). Revisiting Conscientious Objection in Abortion Care: Framing the Global Debate with Lessons from South Africa. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Nabaneh, S., Andam, K., Odada, K., Eriksson, Å. & Stevens, M. (2023). Contesting gender and coloniality: a lens on conservative mobilization in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. Politique Africaine Special Issue on Thinking Anti-Gender Movements in Africa.
• Nabaneh, S. (2023). Abortion law and practice in South Africa: 25 years after the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act. In Ngwena, C., Durojaye, E., Nabaneh, S. & Murungi, N. Abortion Law Reform in Africa. (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Ngwena, C., Durojaye, E., Nabaneh, S. & Murungi, N. (2023). ‘Introduction’ in Ngwena, C., Durojaye, E., Nabaneh, S. & Murungi, N. Abortion Law Reform in Africa. (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).

2022

• Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Viljoen, F. & Msosa, A. (2022). Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Gloppen, S., Jjuuko, A., Viljoen, F. & Msosa, A. (2022). Queer lawfare in Africa: Introduction and theoretical framework. In Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Msosa, A. & Viljoen, F. “Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation”. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Tadele, G., Woldekidan, A. (2022). Digital lawfare and activism by lesbian, gay and bisexual persons in Ethiopia. In Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Msosa, A. & Viljoen, F. “Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation”. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Tønnessen, L., Nagar, S., Samah, K. A. (2022). Activism from the closet: Fear of a double backlash against a nascent queer movement in Sudan. In Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Msosa, A. & Viljoen, F. “Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation”. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Jjuuko, A. and Nyanzi, S. (2022). Court focused lawfare over LGBT rights: The case of Uganda. In Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Msosa, A. & Viljoen, F. “Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation”. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Rosario, C., Gianella, C. (2022). Progressive legislation in the context of generalised conservative public opinion: The case of LGBT rights in Mozambique. In Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Msosa, A. & Viljoen, F. “Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation”. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Jjuuko, A., Viljoen, F., Gloppen, S. & Msosa, A. (2022). Conclusion: The kaleidoscope of queer lawfare in Africa. In Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Msosa, A. & Viljoen, F. “Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation”. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Nabaneh, S. (2022). From a ‘crusade to root out homosexuality like malaria’ to a ‘non-issue’: The absence of sexual minority lawfare in The Gambia’. In Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Msosa, A. & Viljoen, F. “Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation”. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Orago, N., Gloppen, S., Gichohi, M. (2022). Queer lawfare in Kenya: Shifting opportunities for rights realisation. In Jjuuko, A., Gloppen, S., Msosa, A. & Viljoen, F. “Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation”. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).
• Gianella, C. (2022) When Winning in the Courts is Not Enough: Abortion and the Limits of Legal Mobilization Without Grassroots Involvement in Peru. In Botero, Sandra; Brinks, Daniel M.; Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. The Limits of Judicialization From Progress to Backlash in Latin America, 2022.
• Maffi, I. (2022). The production of ignorance about medical abortion in Tunisia: between state policies, medical opposition, patriarchal logics and Islamic revival. Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online, vol.14, pp. 111-120.
• Maffi, I. (2022). Governing Reproduction in Post-revolutionary Tunisia: Contraception, Abortion and Infertility. Medical Anthropology, 41:6-7, 689-701, DOI:10.1080/01459740.2021.1941004.
• Nabaneh, S. (2022). The Status of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Africa. Völkerrechtsblog, 09.03.2022, doi: 10.17176/20220309-120935-0.
• Roseman, M., Rebouche, R. (2022). How international law should guide post-Roe America. The Hill, 9/11/2022.
• Roseman, M., Rebouche, R. (2022). Leaked SCOTUS Opinion Relies on Misinformation and Tropes of the Anti-Abortion Movement. MsMagazine, 6/13/2022.

2021

• Nabaneh, S. (2021). ‘Abortion and ‘conscientious objection’ in South Africa: The need for regulation’ in Durojaye, E., Mirugi-Mukundi, G. & Ngwena, C. (eds). Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: Constraints and Opportunities (Routledge), pp. 16-34.
• Nabaneh, S. & Ngwena, C. (2021). ‘Sexual health and rights: intersections with reproductive justice, gender, and gender-based violence’. Handover Dialogues: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.
• Tadele, G. (2021). Researching Sexuality in Ethiopia: Reflections on My Experience Journeying through a Complex Field. African Arguments.
• Gloppen, S. (2021). Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare. Direito GV Law Review, p. 1-19. 10.1590/2317-6172202143.
• Tønnessen, L., al-Nagar, S. (2021). Legal Mobilization to Protect Women against Rape in Islamist Sudan. Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines.
• Diaz Perez, E., Mamelund, Svenn-Erik, Eid, J., A., Henriette Sinding, K., Oddvar, M., Cox, R. J., Gloppen, S., Beyer, A., Kumar, B. N. (2021). Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2021; 49: 804–808.
• Roseman, M., Rebouche, R. (2021). Equal Rights May Right Hollow: The Precarious State of Abortion Rights. MsMagazine, 9/29/2021.
• Roseman, M. (2021). The messy family saga and complicated characters behind Roe v. Wade. Washington Post, 9/17/2021.
• Roseman, M., Rebouche, R. (2021). Eugenic Abortions’ and the Problematic Popularity of the Reason-Based Ban. MsMagazine, 1/27/21.

2020

• Jjuuko, A. (2020). Strategic Litigation and the Struggle for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Equality in Africa. Daraja Press. 
• Blystad, A., Haukanes, H., Tadele, G. and Moland, K. M. Reproductive health and the politics of abortion. International Journal for Equity in Health 19:39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-1157-1
• Gianella, C., Iguiñiz-Romero, R., Romero, M. J. and Gideon, J. (2020). Good Health Indicators are Not Enough: Lessons from COVID-19 in Peru. Health and Human Rights: An International Journal.
• Gloppen, S. and Rakner, L. (2020). LGBT Rights in Africa. Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law.
• Ariansen, A. M, Gloppen, S., Rakner, L., Johansson, K. A., Haaland, Ø. A. Time for global health diplomacy. The Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10238, 30 May–5 June 2020, Pages 1691-1692.
• Maffi, I. (2020). Abortion in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia. Politics, medicine and morality. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• Nabaneh, S. (2020). Power Dynamics in The Provision of Legal Abortion: A Feminist Perspective on Nurses and Conscientious Objection in South Africa. PhD Thesis. Supervisors: Ngwena, Ch. and Gloppen, S. 

2019

• Gianella, C. and Rosario, C. (2019). Evolução Histórico-Legal do Processo de Despenalização do Aborto em Moçambique. In A. Carlos, B. M. Cau, B. Chilundo, J. J. Picardo and S. Griffin: Planeamento Familiar e Políticas de Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva em Moçambique. Maputo: CEPSA pp. 259-279.
• Gloppen, S. and Rakner, L. (2019). The perfect enemy: From migrants to sexual minorities. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:05).
• Maffi, I. and Affes, M. (2019) The right to abortion in Tunisia after the revolution of 2011: Legal, medical and social arrangements seen through seven abortion stories. Health and Human Rights: An International Journal 2019; Volume 21.(2) p. 69-78.
• Maffi, I. and Gouilhers, S. (2019) Conceiving of risk in childbirth: obstetric discourses, medical management and cultural expectations in Switzerland and Jordan. Health, Risk & Society, 21:3-4, 185-206.
• Nabaneh, S. (2019). The Gambia’s Political Transition to Democracy: Is Abortion Reform Possible? Health and Human Rights Journal. Pages: 167-179, issue 21(2).
• Skage I. A., Aarsæther, A., Gunnarsdottir, G. and Abrahams, W. (2019). The Art of Fallism – A University of Colonial Thinking. Documentary. Bergen International Film Festival.
• Roseman, M. (2019). Restricting Women’s Autonomy in the Name of Eugenics. LPE Project Blog, 11/11/19.
• Tadele, G., Made, W. K. (2019) Health needs, health care seeking behavior, and utilization of health services among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Ethiopia. International Journal for Equity in Health 18(1).
• Tadele, G. and Epprecht, M. (2019). Ethiopia. In Chiang (ed.) Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History. 
• Tadele, G., Haukanes, H., Blystad, A. and Molland, K. M. An uneasy compromise’:  Strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia. International Journal for Equity in Health. 18:138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1017-z
• Blystad, A., Haukanes, H. Tadele, G., Haaland, M., Sambaiga, R., Zulu, J., Molan, K. M. The access paradox. Abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. International Journal for Equity in Health (2019) 18:126. 
• Tønnessen, L. and Maffi, I. (2019). Special Issue: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa. Health and Human Rights: An International Journal 2019; Volume 21(2).
• Tønnessen, L. and Maffi, I. (2019). The limits of the law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa. Health and Human Rights: An International Journal 2019; Volume 21.(2) p. 1-6.
• Tønnessen, L. and Al-Nagar, S. (2019). The Politicization of Abortion and Hippocratic Disobedience in Islamist Sudan. In Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 21 no. 2 pp. 7-19.
• Zelada, C. J. and Neyra-Sevilla, C. (2019). Trans Legalities: Preliminary Study of Files on the Recognition of Trans Identities in Peru. The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Volume 3 (2019).
• Getnet, T., Eprecht, M. (2019). Ethiopia. In Chiang (ed.) Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History. 
• Yamin, A. E. (2019). Power, Politics and Knowledge Claims: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the SDG Era. Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12598.

2018

• Berge Mathisen, R. (2018) A Postmaterialist Explanation for Homophobia in Africa: Multilevel Analysis of Attitudes Towards Homosexuals in 33 African Countries. Master thesis: University of Bergen.
• Langford, M. (2018). Critiques of Human Rights. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 14 (2018), pp. 69-89.
• Maffi, I. (2018). L’introduction de la santé maternelle et infantile en Transjordanie: le rôle des femmes dans les politiques coloniales. Gesnerus Band 75:95-112 .
• Maffi, I., Fortier, C., Kreil, A. (2018). Reinventing Love? Gender, intimacy and romance in the Arab world (Middle East, Social and Cultural Studies / Etudes culturelles et sociales sur le Moyen-Orient) (German Edition). 3034327781. Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften; New edición.
• Maffi, I. (2018). Uncertainties and shifting forms of intimacy in post-revolutionary Tunisia. In Reinventing love? Gender, Intimacy and Romance in the Arab World. 
• Maffi, I., Fortier, C. and Kreil, A. (2018). Introduction: Reinventing Love? Gender, Intimacy and Romance in the Arab World. In Reinventing Love? Gender, intimacy and romance in the Arab world (Middle East, Social and Cultural Studies.) Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften; New Edition.
• Tønnensen L. (2018). A newspaper op-ed: “Norges statsminister viser dobbeltmoral i abortstriden”. Bistandsaktuelt 12.11.2018.
• Yamin, A., Constantin, A. (2018). A Long and Winding Road: The Evolution of Applying Human Rights Frameworks to Health. Georgetown Journal of International Law, Vol. 49, 191-237.

2017

• Langford, M. (2017). Same-Sex Marriage in Polarised Times: Revisiting Joslin v New Zealand, in E. Brems and E. Desmet (eds.), Rewriting Integrated Human Rights. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2017.
• Langford, M. (2017). Interdisciplinarity and Multimethodism, in B. A. Andreassen, H.O. Sano and S. McIerney-Lankford (eds.), Human Rights Research Methods, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2017, 161-191.
• Langford, M. (2017). Amerikansk høyesteretts mest konservative? Dagbladet, 13.07.2017
• Moland, K. M., Haukanes, H., Tadele, G., Blystad, A. (2017). The paradox of access – abortion law, policy and misoprostol. The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association (Tidsskr Nor Legeforen). Issue 2,  23 December 2017. DOI: 10.4045/tidsskr.17.0809.
• Gianella, C., Machado, M. R. A., Gloppen, S. (2017). Political determinants of Sustainable Development Goals. The Lancet. Pages: 2545-2546, issue 390/2017.
• Yamin, A. E., Bergalo, P. (2017). Narratives of Essentialism and Exceptionalism: The Challenges and Possibilities of Using Human Rights to Improve Access to Safe Abortion. Health and Human Rights journal. 2017 Jun; 19(1): 1–11.

2016

• Langford, M. (2016). Har vi vedtatt en sexkjøpslov som gjør livet farligere for andre mennesker? Aftenposten, 2016-04-21.