Abstract

BARANDELA, Ana Clara. Socio-legal production of obstetric violence: notes on its conditions of possibility in 21st century Argentina. Rev. urug. Antropología y Etnografía [online]. 2023, vol.8, n.1, e789.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 2393-7068.  https://doi.org/10.29112/ruae.v8i1.1789.

This paper explores the process of discursive construction of obstetric violence as a socially legitimised problem in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although it is currently a demand related to women's movements, this link has not always been intuitive. In this sense, our reflections are oriented to investigate the conditions of thematisation and nomination of this type of violence and its accommodation in the local feminist interpretative framework, in order to finally problematise some of the situations that can also be considered as violence during childbirth, but which remain mostly outside this construction. To this end, we find it useful to abstract three necessary 'moments' in this social production: 1) the work of re-signifying female reproductive processes, on the one hand, and gender violence on the other, 2) the social construction of the category 'obstetric violence', together with the elaboration of legal mechanisms designed to deal with it, and 3) the visibility and dissemination of the problem together with the social profile of the victims.

Keywords : obstetric violence; victims; feminism.

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