The article analyzes the main characteristics of the abortion services performed by feminist organizations in cities of the United States, Italy, and France between 1989 and 1978. These organizations practiced underground abortions, without medical attention. We carried out a historical reconstruction and a comparative analysis of the main aspects of the organizations, based on scientific research, information ...
This paper aims to retrieve, gather, and analyze documents about the Chicago women's organization, known as "Jane", Who carried out a clandestine abortion service between 1969 and 1973. We elaborate on the historical reconstruction of the central aspects of the experience to show the strategies that They developed to implement the service, even without having formal instruction in medicine. We consulted archive...
This paper examines the stigma of abortion among professionals who are providers of the service, considering, in particular, the time when they joined the Network of Healthcare Professionals for the Right to Decide. This network was created in Argentina at the end of 2014 by a joint alliance of women’s and feminist organizations and healthcare professionals. We have conducted an exploratory study, of a des...
During April 2009, the phenomenon of dengue emerged in the city of Cordoba (Argentina). It was in this period that the first wave of autochthonous cases was triggered. Sociologically, it is interesting to investigate the various meanings that circulated around the disease, as they signal the marks that were given at the beginning of the epidemic. The objective of this study was to examine the media construction...
El objetivo del presente trabajo es indagar los procesos de salud/enfermedad/atención (en adelante s/e/a) por los que atraviesan las mujeres indígenas y sus familias, quienes habitan en áreas rurales de la Puna jujeña, al norte de Argentina. La selección del espacio social rural se debe a que es quizá uno de los contextos menos frecuentes donde abordar la problemática de la mujer y la salud. Para estas comunida...