“You only have one mother!”: institutional violence in experiences of double motherhood in healthcare
Stephany Yolanda Ril,
João Batista de Oliveira Junior,
Mônica Machado Cunha e Mello
et al.
Abstract:The objective was to understand experiences of double motherhood during antenatal, childbirth and postpartum healthcare, using a qualitative method involving individual online interviews and asynchronous, online focus groups of cisgender women, mostly in same-sex relationships. The results revealed how these women’s experiences of parenting were marginalised, highlighting institutional violence in Brazilian healthcare services, which are presented here in two thematic dimensions: 1) Cisheteronormativity and it… Show more
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