"It seemed like she just wanted me to suffer": Acts of obstetric racism and birthing rights violations against Black women

• Main Authors: Dorian S. Odems (Author), Erica Czaja (Author), Saraswathi Vedam (Author), Na'Tasha Evans (Author), Barbara Saltzman (Author), Karen A. Scott (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Studies that examine obstetric violence and mistreatment during perinatal care demonstrate that Black women experience higher levels of harm and abuse than other racialized groups. Yet these gender-based concepts do not fully recognize the intersectional gender-and race-based harms tha...