“My Soul Hurt, and I Felt as If I Was Going to Die”: Obstetric Violence as Torture

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Sara Cohen Shabot, Michelle Sadler
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Abstract Obstetric violence—violence in the labor room—has been described in terms not only of violence in general but of gender violence specifically. This feminist-phenomenological analysis demonstrates features that the experiences of torture and of obstetric violence share. Many birthing subjects describe their experiences of obstetric violence as torture. This use of the concept of torture to explain what they have gone through is not trivial and deserves philosophical attention. In this article, we give several examples (mainly from Chilean women's birth narratives), examining them through phenomenological and feminist phenomenological analyses of torture. We argue that, as with torture, it is not mere pain that marks the experience of obstetric violence, but rather a state of ontological loneliness and desolation, a detachment from the previous known world, and a loss of trust in those surrounding us. But if obstetric violence is gender violence, this must be gendered torture: it is perpetrated with the goal of humiliating and controlling women, of reifying them and robbing them of their free embodied subjectivities in labor.
“我的灵魂受到伤害,我觉得自己好像要死了”:产科暴力是一种折磨
产科暴力——产房中的暴力——不仅被描述为一般的暴力,而且被描述为具体的性别暴力。这种女权主义现象学分析展示了酷刑和产科暴力经历的共同特征。许多分娩对象将产科暴力的经历描述为折磨。用酷刑的概念来解释他们所经历的一切并不是微不足道的,值得哲学上的关注。在本文中,我们给出了几个例子(主要来自智利妇女的出生叙述),通过对酷刑的现象学和女权主义现象学分析来检查它们。我们认为,与酷刑一样,产科暴力经历的标志不仅仅是疼痛,而是一种本体论上的孤独和荒凉状态,与以前已知的世界脱节,以及对周围人失去信任。但是,如果产科暴力是性别暴力,那么这一定是性别折磨:它的实施目的是羞辱和控制妇女,使她们具体化,并剥夺她们在劳动中自由体现的主体性。
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