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ArticleViolence against women2025

The Undercommons of Childbirth and Their Abolitionist Ethic of Care. A Study into Obstetric Violence Among Mothers, Midwives (in Training), and Doulas.

Rodante van der Waal, Inge van Nistelrooij, Carlo Leget

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Article in Violence against women, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rodante van der WaalUniversity for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2152-2695
Inge van NistelrooijUniversity for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Carlo LegetUniversity for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
University of Humanistic Studies · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Engaging in dialogue with critical mothers, midwives, midwives in training, and doulas in the Netherlands, this study furthers the theoretical understanding of both obstetric violence and the activist resistance against it. Obstetric violence is understood as part of a process of relational separation, leaving the pregnant person isolated. The activist resistance against it is consequently theorized as the abolitionist building of an alternative "otherworld" of radical relational care. The themes established are: (1) "institutionalized separation" with the subtheme's "expropriation," "carcerality," and "obstetric violence;" and (2) "undercommoning childbirth" with subthemes "fugitive planning," "anarchic relationality," and "obstetric abolition."

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DoulasMidwiferyMothersParturitionAdultDelivery, ObstetricFemaleHumansNetherlandsPregnancyQualitative ResearchViolencebirthmidwiferyobstetric abolitionobstetric carceralityobstetric violence

Identifiers

PMID38055959
PMCPMC11610184
OpenAlexW4389376069

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