RT Article
T1 Obstetric Violence in Their Own Words: How Women in Mexico and South Africa Expect, Experience, and Respond to Violence
JF Violence against women
VO 28
IS 11
SP 2700
OP 2721
A1 Smith-Oka, Vania
A2 Rubin, Sarah E.
A2 Dixon, Lydia Z.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1814881182
AB This article, based on ethnographic research in Mexico and South Africa, presents two central arguments about obstetric violence: (a) structural inequalities across diverse global sites are primarily linked to gender and lead to similar patterns of obstetric violence, and (b) ethnography is a powerful method to give voice to women's stories. Connecting these two arguments is a temporal model to understand how women across the world come to expect, experience, and respond to obstetric violence—that is, before, during, and after the encounter. This temporal approach is a core feature of ethnography, which requires long-term immersion and attention to context.
K1 South Africa
K1 Mexico
K1 Ethnography
K1 obstetric violence
K1 gender-based violence
DO 10.1177/10778012211037375