Her body her own worst enemy”: The medicalization of violence against women

摘要: From the 1960s, when women began working together to end gender-based violence, well into twenty-first century, attitudes and practices have shifted in important ways, yet this social justice project is far from complete. While feminist resistance has gone public unprecedented institutional responses often lag behind. This chapter focuses on medical contexts, arguing that gendered a neglected topic bioethics, constitutes an issue for field, one urgently need of intersectional bioethical analysis. Moreover, argues analysis requires intersectionality, such as including transgendered genderqueer people focus, while addressing race, class, disability, other vectors oppression. Complex inegalitarian dynamics persist pervasive factors healthcare, compounding harms violence itself treatment sought. Mainstream medicine treats symptoms ignoring or obscuring causes. However, provides guidance based tenets movements against violence. Medical providers distinctive opportunity intervene crisis movement-based principles point way equitable effective responses.