Birth Justice

Autor: van der Waal, Rodante
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2025
Předmět:
Reproductive Justice
Obstetric Violence
Abolition
Philosophy of Birth
Midwifery

thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups
communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies
gender groups

thema EDItEUR::V Health
Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFX Parenting: advice and issues

thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties
branches of medicine::MKC Gynaecology and obstetrics

thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQD Midwifery
thema EDItEUR::V Health
Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFX Parenting: advice and issues::VFXB Pregnancy
birth and baby care: advice and issues
Druh dokumentu: book
DOI: 10.5117/9789048562398
Popis: Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates for people of color, and more and more research addressing the structural nature of obstetric violence. In this collection of essays, the cause of reproductive injustice is understood as the institutionalized isolation of (potentially) pregnant people, making them vulnerable for bio- and necropolitical disciplination and control. The central thesis of this book is that reproductive justice must be achieved through a radical reappropriation of relationality in reproductive care to safeguard the access to knowledge and care needed for safe bodily self-determination. Through empirical research as well as decolonial, feminist, midwifery, and Black theory, reproductive justice is reimagined as abolitionist care, grounded in the abolition of authoritative obstetric institutions, state control of reproduction, and restrictive abortion laws in favor of community practices that are truly relational.
Databáze: OAPEN Library