Birth Justice

Rodante van der Waal is a feminist philosopher, community midwife, and abortion activist in Amsterdam. Their academic articles have been published in Violence against Women, Feminist Anthropology, Angelaki, and Frontiers.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Theoretical Framework. Reproductive Justice To-Come
Part I. Obstetric Violence and Obstetric Racism in the Netherlands
Intermezzo. A people’s tribunal on obstetric violence and obstetric racism
Chapter 1. Shroud waving self-determination: a qualitative analysis of the moral and epistemic dimensions of obstetric violence in the Netherlands
Chapter 2. Obstetric racism as necropolitical disinvestment of care: how uneven reproduction in the Netherlands is effectuated through linguistic racism, exoticization, and stereotypes
Chapter 3. Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: the reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other
Part II. The Separation of Reproductive Relationality Intermezzo. Abortion scene from Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu
Chapter 4. Hacking Reproductive Justice: Solomon’s judgment and the captive maternal
Chapter 5. The ‘dead baby card’ and the early modern accusation of infanticide: Situating obstetric violence in the bio- and necropolitics of reproduction
Chapter 6. Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”
Part III. Abolitionist Care
Chapter 7. The undercommons of childbirth and their abolitionist ethic of care: a study into obstetric violence among mothers, midwives (in training), and doulas
Chapter 8. Obstetric Violence: An Intersectional Refraction through Abolition Feminism
Chapter 9. Undercommoning anthrogenesis: abolitionist care for reproductive justice
Part IV. Reimagining Reproduction
Chapter 10. Specter(s) of care: A symposium on midwifery, relationality, and reproductive justice to-come
Chapter 11. Somatophilic reproductive justice: on technology, feminist biological materialism, and midwifery thinking
Chapter 12. “When the egg breaks, the chicken bleeds:” unsettling coloniality through fertility in Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and The Chronicles
Conclusion. Birth Justice
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