Building infrastructures of abortion care in an un-caring state: acompañante's carework and abortion access in Peru.

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q2 WOMENS STUDIES

Signs Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1086/723296

Deirdre Duffy, Cordelia Freeman, Sandra Rodríguez

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For abortion seekers, Peru is an uncaring state where legal and policy interventions have resulted in violence, persecution, and neglect. This state of abortion uncare is set within historic and ongoing denials of reproductive autonomy, coercive reproductive care, and the marginalisation of abortion. Abortion is not supported, even where legally permissible. Here we explore abortion care activism within the Peruvian context, foregrounding a key mobilisation that has emerged against a state of un-care - acompañante carework. Through interviews with people involved in abortion access and activism in Peru, we argue that acompañantes have constructed an infrastructure of abortion care in Peru through the bringing together of actors, technologies, and strategies. This infrastructure is shaped by a feminist ethic of care that differs from minority world care assumptions regarding high quality abortion care in three key ways: (i) care is provided beyond the state; (ii) care is holistic; and (iii) care is collective. We argue that US feminist debates relating to the emerging hyperrestrictive state of abortion un-care as well as broader research on feminist care can learn from acompañante activism strategically and conceptually.

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在缺乏关爱的国家建立堕胎护理基础设施：秘鲁的陪护工作和堕胎机会。

对于寻求堕胎者而言，秘鲁是一个缺乏关爱的国家，法律和政策干预导致了暴力、迫害和忽视。这种不关心堕胎的状态是建立在历史和持续剥夺生殖自主权、强制生殖保健和堕胎边缘化的基础之上的。即使在法律允许的情况下，堕胎也得不到支持。在此，我们将探讨秘鲁的堕胎关怀活动，重点关注针对无关怀状态而出现的一种重要动员--"陪伴者关怀工作"（acompañante carework）。通过对参与秘鲁堕胎服务和活动的人员进行访谈，我们认为 "陪同者 "通过汇集参与者、技术和策略，构建了秘鲁堕胎护理的基础设施。这一基础设施是由女权主义的护理伦理形成的，它在三个关键方面不同于世界少数群体对高质量人工流产护理的假设：(i) 护理是在国家之外提供的；(ii) 护理是整体性的；(iii) 护理是集体性的。我们认为，美国女权主义关于堕胎无关怀这一新兴的过度限制状态的辩论，以及关于女权主义关怀的更广泛的研究，可以从战略和概念上向 acompañante 行动主义学习。

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Signs WOMENS STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Recognized as the leading international journal in women"s studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. Signs publishes pathbreaking articles of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and/or sexuality either as central focuses or as constitutive analytics; symposia engaging comparative, interdisciplinary perspectives from around the globe to analyze concepts and topics of import to feminist scholarship; retrospectives that track the growth and development of feminist scholarship, note transformations in key concepts and methodologies, and construct genealogies of feminist inquiry; and new directions essays, which provide an overview of the main themes, controversies.