Unsafe abortion: a patriarchal and racialized picture of women’s poverty

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02592018v21n3p452

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the reality of criminalized abortion reinforces inequalities of gender, race/ethnicity, and class, which are co-produced within the context of sexage, understood here as the appropriation of women by men, reducing them to the status
of thing. The bibliographic and documentary research was carried out, from the perspective of materialistic, historical and dialectical analysis. The main conclusion is that criminalization reinforces the logic of social inequalities in Brazil and the world. This is because poor and black women are the most affected, those who die the most, and because almost all unsafe abortions in the world occur in the peripheric economies. Thus, the consequences of criminalized abortion, whether moral, health or economic, mainly impact poor, black, young women living in peripheral economies.

Author Biographies

Mirla Cisne, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte

Doctor of Social Work from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Assistant Professor of Social Work at the Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN).

Giulia Maria Jenelle Cavalcante de Oliveira, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte

Bachelor of Laws from Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN). Lawyer and Master’s candidate in Social Work and Social Rights from Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande
do Norte (UERN).

Viviane Vaz Castro, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte

Master’s degree in Social Work and Social Rights from Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN). Substitute Professor of Social Work at the Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN).

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Published

2018-11-30

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2018): Social Work: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Generations and Sexuality

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Thematic space

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