Birth Justice : From Obstetric Violence to Abolitionist Care.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

van der Waal, Rodante.

Contributor:

Nistelrooij, Inge van, 1967-

Helberg-Proctor, Alana.

Goodarzi, Bahareh.

Mitchell, VeRonica.

Bozalek, Vivienne.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates for people of color, and more and more research addressing the structural nature of obstetric violence. In this collection of essays, the cause of reproductive injustice is understood as the institutionalized isolation of (potentially) pregnant people, making them vulnerable for bio- and necropolitical disciplination and control. The central thesis of this book is that reproductive justice must be achieved through a radical reappropriation of relationality in reproductive care to safeguard the access to knowledge and care needed for safe bodily self-determination. Through empirical research as well as decolonial, feminist, midwifery, and Black theory, reproductive justice is reimagined as abolitionist care, grounded in the abolition of authoritative obstetric institutions, state control of reproduction, and restrictive abortion laws in favor of community practices that are truly relational.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Theoretical Framework: Reproductive Justice to-Come

PART I Obstetric Violence and Obstetric Racism in the Netherlands

Intermezzo. A People’s Tribunal on Obstetric Violence and Obstetric Racism

1 Shroud Waving Self-determination : A Qualitative Analysis of the Moral and Epistemic Dimensions of Obstetric Violence in the Netherlands

2 Obstetric Racism as Necropolitical Disinvestment of Care : How Uneven Reproduction in the Netherlands Is Effectuated through Linguistic Racism, Exoticization, and Stereotypes

3 Obstetric Violence within Students’ Rite of Passage : The Reproduction of the Obstetric Subject and its Racialised (M)other

PART II The Dissolution of Reproductive Relationality

Intermezzo. Abortion Scene from Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

4 Hacking Reproductive Justice: Solomon’s Judgment and the Captive Maternal

5 The “Dead Baby Card” and the Early Modern Accusation of Infanticide : Situating Obstetric Violence in the Bio- and Necropolitics of Reproduction

6 Reimagining Relationality for Reproductive Care : Understanding Obstetric Violence as “Separation 6 Reimagining Relationality for Reproductive Care : Understanding Obstetric Violence as “Separation”

PART III Abolitionist Care

Intermezzo. Cecilia’s Story

7 The Undercommons of Childbirth and Its Abolitionist Ethic of Care : A Study of Obstetric Violence among Mothers, Midwives (in Training), and Doulas

8 Obstetric Violence: An Intersectional Refraction through Abolition Feminism

9 Undercommoning Anthrogenesis : Abolitionist Care for Reproductive Justice

PART IV Reimagining Reproduction

Intermezzo. Boring and Undisturbed Reproductive Futures

10 Specter(s) of Care : A Symposium on Midwifery, Relationality, and Reproductive Justice to-Come

11 Somatophilic Reproductive Justice : On Technology, Feminist Biological Materialism, and Midwifery Thinking

12 “When the Egg Breaks, the Chicken Bleeds” : Unsettling Coloniality through Fertility in Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and The Chronicles

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789048562404

9048562406

OCLC:

1492950951