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Abortion Politics and the Persistence of Patriarchy
... This is not a new problem. The social control of women's sexuality and reproduction has a very long history and is a major feature of patriarchal societies like the U.S. (Chesney-Lind, 2019;Renzetti, Curran, & Maier, 2012). ...
... Probably not entirely, but women's control over their bodies is definitely under siege and there is no sign that this type of oppression is going away in the U.S. and elsewhere. Keep in mind that 39% of the world's population lives in nations with very restrictive laws governing abortion (Chesney-Lind, 2019). Moreover, there is no evidence of a decline in many types of violence against women behind closed doors. ...
Heavily influenced by broad definitions of crime developed by a few pioneering critical criminologists, the main objective of this article is to provide evidence showing that the current Trump administration is a regime that commits crimes of the powerful and facilitates some types of interpersonal violence in private places. Special attention is devoted to direct and in-direct state-perpetrated violent crimes against women.
Este artículo tiene como objetivo llevar al lector a través
de las obras y los aportes de Meda Chesney-Lind, feminista
y criminóloga, quien ha liderado desde finales de los años
ochenta la discusión sobre la mujer y su relación con el crimen.
Entretejiendo sus aportes con nuestro trabajo de campo, vamos
llevando al lector a través de los principales argumentos de esta
autora, mostrando igualmente su importancia en el contexto
colombiano. De esta manera, el documento se divide en tres
partes en las que se desarrolla en qué consiste el enfoque de
género, pero más importante, cómo esto contribuye y responde
a preguntas sobre inequidad y justicia frente a las mujeres en
el sistema penal.
Despite making some of the most important advances in the social scientific study of woman abuse, feminist sociological research and theorizing that prioritize the concept of patriarchy have leveled off or declined in the last 15 years due, in large part, to the current hegemony of mainstream criminologists fundamentally opposed to a rich gendered understanding of one of the world's most compelling social problems. Drawing on nearly 50 years of research done by an international cadre of highly experienced scholars, this article demonstrates the importance of revisiting some major feminist conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions from the past. Recommended here are gender-specific conceptualizations of abuse, in-depth reviews of the extant literature, self-report surveys of potential male offenders, quantitative indicators of men's patriarchal attitudes and beliefs, and supplementary open-ended survey questions.
Legislative paternalism is inextricably linked to an inequitable patient experience of UK abortion services, with potential for parity of access across this area of gendered healthcare through the home administration of misoprostol stilted by ministerial distrust of professional providers. Statutorily derived, this dominant structural power is additionally observed through the lawful interpretation of the upper time limit, and the implementation of clinic ‘buffer zones’. COVID-19-related lockdown temporarily transformed the field, however, diversifying patient access through telemedicine and ‘pills by post’. Public consultation on the permanency of these measures has since provided the possibility for service recipients to inform future policy design. The government’s ‘sunset clause’, and intra-professional tensions, nevertheless casts significant doubt on meaningful elevation of patients in the network and long-term adaption to structural interplay.
Unsafe abortion is preventable and yet remains a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in much of the developing world. Over the last decade, the World Health Organization has developed a systematic approach to estimate the regional and global incidence of unsafe abortion. Estimates based on figures around the year 2000 indicate that 19 million unsafe abortions take place each year, that is, approximately one in ten pregnancies ended in an unsafe abortion, giving a ratio of one unsafe abortion to about seven live births. Almost all unsafe abortions take place in the developing world. In Latin America and the Caribbean, 3.7 million unsafe abortions are estimated to take place each year, with an abortion rate of 26 per 1000 women of reproductive age, almost one unsafe abortion to every three live births. Asia has the lowest unsafe abortion rate at 11 per 1000 women of reproductive age, but 10.5 million unsafe abortions take place there each year, almost one unsafe abortion to every seven live births. However, excluding East Asia, where most abortions are safe and accessible, the ratio for the rest of Asia is one unsafe abortion to five live births. In Africa, 4.2 million abortions are estimated to take place per year, with an unsafe abortion rate of 22 per 1000 women, or one unsafe abortion per seven live births. In contrast, there is one unsafe abortion per 25 live births in developed countries.