“You didn’t cry while doing it”: obstetric violence and its expressions

The study aims to analyze obstetric violence and its various expressions from the perspective of postpartum women. Captured through semi-structured interviews with 12 postpartum women accompanied by a Basic Health Unit in a municipality in northeastern Brazil, the questions were about the socio-econ...

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Autores: Medeiros, Rita de Cássia da Silva, Nascimento, Ellany Gurgel Cosme do
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Revista Estudos Feministas
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/71008
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/71008
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:violência contra a mulher
violência obstétrica
parto
trabalho de parto
parto humanizado
Políticas Públicas de Saúde
violencia contra la mujer
violencia obstétrica
trabajo de parto
Nacimiento humanizado
políticas de salud pública
Violence Against Women
Obstetric Violence
Childbirth
Labor
Humanized Birth
Public Health Policies
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Sumario:The study aims to analyze obstetric violence and its various expressions from the perspective of postpartum women. Captured through semi-structured interviews with 12 postpartum women accompanied by a Basic Health Unit in a municipality in northeastern Brazil, the questions were about the socio-economic profile, the experience of childbirth, and the perception they had about obstetricviolence. We identified that obstetric violence is recurrent in-hospital care and expresses inequalities and oppression in gender relations and between professionals and users of health services. The confrontation of obstetric violence demands to give greater visibility to this problem, including it in the training processes and the workspaces of these professionals, as well as among women, in an attempt to provide the identification and confrontation of this form of violence.