Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA.
Med Anthropol. 2019 Oct;38(7):560-573. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2018.1549389. Epub 2018 Dec 6.
In this article, I analyze the birth stories of Black women living in the United States. Their birth stories describe various forms of racism during medical encounters while they were pregnant or during labor and delivery. In the global women's health arena, the issues raised are viewed as obstetric violence. However, obstetric racism-as both an occurrence and analytic-best captures the particularities of Black women's reproductive care during the pre- and post-natal period. Obstetric racism is a threat to positive birth outcomes. I argue that birth workers including midwives and doulas, mediate obstetric racism and stratified reproductive outcomes.
在这篇文章中，我分析了生活在美国的黑人女性的生育故事。她们的生育故事描述了她们在怀孕期间或分娩期间的医疗遭遇中所经历的各种形式的种族主义。在全球妇女健康领域，这些问题被视为产科暴力。然而，产科种族主义——既是一种现象，也是一种分析方法——最能捕捉到产前和产后黑人女性生殖护理的特殊性。产科种族主义对积极的生育结果构成威胁。我认为，包括助产士和导乐在内的分娩工作者，调解了产科种族主义和分层生殖结果。
