OBSTETRIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FROM AN INTERSECTIONAL THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE: A narrative review

Abstract

This study aims to reflect obstetric violence against women from the theoretical perspective of intersectionality. This is a narrative review that was proposed to analyze from the national literature, available in the databases: SciELO, ARCA and VHL, research that addressed the central theme of the present study and in each database the health descriptors were used: "intersectional theory", "obstetric violence" and "gender and ethnic racism" organized by the Boolean operator “AND”. From the extensive literature we can infer that obstetric violence against women occurs mainly against black, brown, indigenous and poor women, that is, women who most accumulate intersections/social determinants of health. Finally, obstetric violence does not choose a profile, all people who are pregnant are subject to being violated just because of their ability to conceive and undergo obstetric procedures. However, it can worsen depending on your environment, class, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity and other intersections.