Gender & Diversity Kalender

Im Rahmen des Interdisziplinären Kolloquiums, das sich im FrSe 2023 mit dem Thema "Leid und Unrecht" befasst, hält

Sara Cohen Shabot

am 13. Juni 2023 um 18.00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel

The Harm of obstetric violence – some reflections from feminist philosophy

Obstetric violence – violence against women giving birth in medicalized settings – has been widely recognized as a phenomenon affecting numerous women globally and systematically, and as one that is in urgent need to be tackled and solved. Obstetric violence is not mere medical violence but constitutes structural gender violence. In my research, I have dealt with different aspects of the phenomenon and the harm done through it from the perspective of feminist philosophy, mainly feminist phenomenology and epistemology. I will discuss some of my insights on the subject in the present lecture.

Sara Cohen Shabot is Associate Professor at the Women's and Gender Studies Program, the University of Haifa. She specializes in phenomenology, feminist philosophy, and philosophies of the body. Her present research and publications address feminist philosophical perspectives on childbirth and the maternal embodied subject. Lately, her research has focused on the phenomenon of obstetric violence as gender violence – and she has published several papers looking at this subject from different philosophical perspectives in journals such as Human Studies, Feminist Theory, The European Journal of Women’s Studies and Hypatia. 

Die Sitzung findet in Präsenz im Raum HEL 164 statt, aber auch online:

Meeting-Link:

https://uni-flensburg.webex.com/uni-flensburg/j.php?MTID=me3eda98de7cb7461682af5f662aca8c1