Pregnant witch: Patriarchal criminalization of the (non) maternal body in access to abortion in Argentina
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body, abortion, criminalization, patriarchy, witch, ArgentinaAbstract
The criminological discourse of the Inquisition condensed in the Malleus Maleficarum in the 15th century and heir to the practices of persecution and torture developed from the 12th century, made use of the image of the witch to be functional to sectors of power in its endeavor to annihilate and decimating entire populations and imprinting in the bodies ways of being and acting necessary for the development of an economic system that required an articulated and controlled model of production / reproduction: capitalism. The objective of this work is to analyze the patriarchal criminalization of the (non) maternal body in access to abortion in Argentina and the continuities of the demonological discourse of the 15th century from the case of Belén, a woman who between 2014 and 2017 was detained for 29 months by a spontaneous abortion. To approach the case, we will use the theoretical contributions of different feminist authors, and from there we will investigate how the punitive power of the State crosses the body with biopower technologies, prints ways of being, thinking and acting, imperatives and prohibitions, and demonizes with its patriarchal stamp the "cursed", subversive and infamous part of what in this work we have called "pregnant witch".
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