Obstetric violence, pregnancy and child-rearing have traditionally been the great forgotten in the fight for gender equality. This void in feminism is addressed by the playwright Guadalupe Saez in the first montage of Overseas productions, Confidence, scheduled in the Ultramar Room.
“The defense of those colleagues who do not want to be mothers has been the main engine of the collective struggle, and along the way we have neglected those people who, voluntarily or not, decide to have children”, explains the author of a text that takes its name from the need to trust healthcare professionals during such an intimate trance.
ConfidenceHowever, it does not explain what it means to give birth, but rather focuses on an aspect that transcends the act itself: the obstetric violence. “It is a powerful text of denunciation in which it is explained how women are silenced in order to turn the act of giving life into a formal, medicalized, practical and violent act. To give birth as one more element of the market’s production chain ”, argues the director of the piece, Eva zapico.
The proposal seeks enforce people’s reproductive rights pregnant women, value care, and attend to the violence that occurs within a delivery room and in childbirth preparation classes, in order to avoid reproducing schemes that isolate and injure women during the act of giving birth.
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