Among Biopolitics, the Invention of the Maternity and Gender. Abortion in Chiapas

In this article I identify some of the limitations that women face when deciding to interrupt a pregnancy in Chiapas. As a starting point, I base myself on the analysis of three legal procedures carried out between the seventies and nineties, for the crime of abortion to the detriment of society, in...

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Autor: Gómez García, Irazú
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Península
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/84254
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/peninsula/article/view/84254
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:abortion
criminalization
Chiapas
women
health
aborto
criminalización
mujeres
salud
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Sumario:In this article I identify some of the limitations that women face when deciding to interrupt a pregnancy in Chiapas. As a starting point, I base myself on the analysis of three legal procedures carried out between the seventies and nineties, for the crime of abortion to the detriment of society, in the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. I study the way in which the biopolitical deployment of gender established logics of domination in the files reviewed from the model of long-term historical analysis (Braudel 1970). The inequalities, indicated for the defendants, were placed in the fields of justice, health, and in their personal relationships ambit. Finally, I consider some of the factors of the current context that continue affecting the possibility of decriminalization, beyond the permanence of a gender biopolitics, as well as women’s reproductive autonomy at the local level.