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Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights
Peasant women in Cajamarca, Peru, who were sterilized by the Peruvian government in the 1990s, narrate their experiences of reproductive abuse using Andean medical principles of debilidad and fuerza (debility and strength) (Tapias 2006). In their narratives, many describe a generalized sense of loss...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35274360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maq.12700 |
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author | Chaparro‐Buitrago, Julieta |
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description | Peasant women in Cajamarca, Peru, who were sterilized by the Peruvian government in the 1990s, narrate their experiences of reproductive abuse using Andean medical principles of debilidad and fuerza (debility and strength) (Tapias 2006). In their narratives, many describe a generalized sense of loss of strength resulting from the procedure. This contrasts with the reproductive rights framework's emphasis on infertility as the main harm. In this article, I ponder the dissonance between these two frameworks and propose the concept of debilitated lifeworlds as decolonial feminist delinking (Mignolo 2007) from human fertility‐centric narratives. This concept is methodologically significant as a decolonial attunement to local motifs to talk about abuse and for weaving a constellation of embodied, emotional, social, and family harms. This article contributes to the emerging field of “decolonial reproductive studies” (Smietana et al. 2018: 117). |
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spelling | pubmed-95457042022-10-14 Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights Chaparro‐Buitrago, Julieta Med Anthropol Q Articles Peasant women in Cajamarca, Peru, who were sterilized by the Peruvian government in the 1990s, narrate their experiences of reproductive abuse using Andean medical principles of debilidad and fuerza (debility and strength) (Tapias 2006). In their narratives, many describe a generalized sense of loss of strength resulting from the procedure. This contrasts with the reproductive rights framework's emphasis on infertility as the main harm. In this article, I ponder the dissonance between these two frameworks and propose the concept of debilitated lifeworlds as decolonial feminist delinking (Mignolo 2007) from human fertility‐centric narratives. This concept is methodologically significant as a decolonial attunement to local motifs to talk about abuse and for weaving a constellation of embodied, emotional, social, and family harms. This article contributes to the emerging field of “decolonial reproductive studies” (Smietana et al. 2018: 117). John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-10 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9545704/ /pubmed/35274360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maq.12700 Text en © 2022 The Author. Medical Anthropology Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Anthropological Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Chaparro‐Buitrago, Julieta Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights |
title | Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights |
title_full | Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights |
title_fullStr | Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights |
title_full_unstemmed | Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights |
title_short | Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights |
title_sort | debilitated lifeworlds: women's narratives of forced sterilization as delinking from reproductive rights |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35274360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maq.12700 |
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