RT Article
T1 Naming Silence and Inadequate Obstetric Care as Obstetric Violence is a Necessary Step for Change
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 8
SP 1019
OP 1027
A1 Salter, Cynthia L.
A2 Olaniyan, Abisola
A2 Mendez, Dara D.
A2 Chang, Judy C.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1759094854
AB This response article addresses the questions raised in “How Gentle Must Violence Against Women be in Order to not be Violent? Rethinking the Word ‘Violence; in Obstetric Settings” and concludes that naming violence is critical for describing people’s experiences of such violence and for addressing the structures and contexts that create and fuel such violence, not for judgment but for accountability and change. Impact, outcome, and, at times, processes—rather than intention—should underpin applications of the term violence; naming violence does not disempower women, but rather naming structural, systemic, and institutional violence demands acknowledgment, accountability, and responsibility for its effects on both patients and clinicians; and, finally, while the unintended consequences of using such a term may present challenges, they do not outweigh the importance of naming structural violence in health-related systems to identify practices and processes that discriminate, disempower, harm, and oppress.
K1 systems thinking
K1 Reproductive justice
K1 Intersectionality
K1 maternity care
K1 obstetric violence
K1 Violence
DO 10.1177/1077801221996443