Teliane Lima Baptista
Master's
student in Social Work at the State University of Alagoas
Email:
telianelima@hotmail.com
Ana Valéria dos Santos Silva
Master's
student in History at the State University of Alagoas
valeria-2910@live.com
ABSTRACT
The control of women's bodies was placed as a central strategy of
capitalism, reducing them to a privileged place for the implementation of
techniques of power and power relations. In view of this, the present work aims
to discuss obstetric violence as an expression of control of the woman's body.
To this end, we resorted to bibliographical and documentary research, using the
category of gender violence as a reference, anchored in historical-dialectical
materialism. It is concluded that obstetric violence will occur during
prenatal, delivery and postpartum care, including abortion, through the routine
use of technology, medicalization and the idea of pathologizing pregnancy,
annihilating the autonomy and women's decision-making capacity. However, there is
no federal or specific legislation in Brazil that conceptualizes it and
provides for sanctions for those who practice it (leaving victims with a great
feeling of powerlessness and impunity), added to incipient public policies and
the silencing of the term "obstetric violence " (which prevents the
real dimension of the issue). limit of the destructive action of capital,
contradictions that are part of the nature of a society of classes.
Keywords: Obstetric Violence. Patriarchy. Body Control.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
junho 11, 2023
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