Approaches to gynecological-obstetric femicide: Approaches to gynecological-obstetric femicide

Abstract

The death of a woman as a consequence of the actions or omissions of the State, institutions or people, due to the disregard of her condition as a woman and the conceptions, traditions and organizational forms of an unequal society, among which can be mentioned attributable maternal deaths deliveries in unacceptable hygienic conditions, lack of medical assistance or obstetric violence can be considered indirect femicide. For this reason, the aforementioned article aims to make visible, problematize and denounce, from a feminist and intersectional perspective, femicides as a consequence of violent gynecological and obstetric practices carried out on women's bodies for cultural, religious, economic, political or medical reasons. ; which are deepened in the case of racialized women, economically precarious women, and therefore, with less influence or possibility of making visible and successfully denouncing the forms of violence and violation perpetrated against them.