Gather Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy And The Medical Abuse Of Women Sketched By Mariarosa Dalla Costa Shown As Textbook

on Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women

equivoqué con el libro, Pensé que era un ensayo histórico sobre el abuso del cuerpo femenino a través de las épocas, pero en realidad trata un tema de actualidad.
Y no es que esta conducta se desligue de prácticas pasadas, sin embargo el enfoque es absolutamente vigente: los pocos escrúpulos y miramientos que la institución médica tiene al tratar y operar el cuerpo femenino, movido por diversos factores el económico es el más repugnante y de peso.
A su vez también habla de la silenciación absoluta del conocimiento natural que una mujer tiene de su cuerpo, el heredado de sus antepasados y transmitido a través del tiempo.
El libro es una colección de ensayos en el que el de la autora es el más extenso, tratándose de una versión extendida de una conferencia que ella misma ofreció en Italia.


No creo que el libro sea malo en sí mismo, pero me parece que su base la medicina y su terminología, además de la imprescindible referencia del sistema legal italiano, dos factores que desconozco y que no me permitieron disfrutarlo.
Though I understand that Nineties feminist writing is massively different than anything we'd think it today, there's a lot of assumptions made about how no person with a uterus would want a hysterectomy.
There are a lot of issues with coerced removals of uteruses and ovaries, but the downplaying of issues such as endometriosis sufferers who seek a permanent solution for their pain.

Gather Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy And The Medical Abuse Of Women Sketched By Mariarosa Dalla Costa  Shown As Textbook
Many of these statistics aren't cited but the personal stories are impactful, I had high hopes for this but pretty disappointing, "The female body, for men, is certainly more a territory to conquer rather than a source of identity" this book was so disconcerting to read Nonfiction.
Feminism. Women's Health. Political Science. Translated from the Italian by Danila Obici and Ralph D, Church. The powerful essays and accompanying glossaries and testimonials collected in GYNOCIDE examine the historical, legal, ethical, psychological, and medical aspects of deeply sexist practices in defining and treating these issues of contemporary women's health.
Contributors draw on the important theoretical insights and perspectives developed in recent decades by radical Italian feminism, revealing the complicity of widespread assumptions about the structures and roles of gender, the nuclear family, educational practices, and the state.
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