Histerektomia: kobiece spojrzenie na jej medyczne aspekty, historyczny rozwój oraz kwestie etyczne i prawne
Hysterectomy:A Woman’s View of its Medical Facet, Historical Development and Ethical and Legal Questions

Summary/Abstract: The following text of Mariarosa Dalla Costa is the translation of a chap-ter from the book Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women. The author focuses there on the abuses performed on a mass scale, such as hysterectomies, ovariectomies, and clitoridectomies, arguing that they are a con-tinuum of violence against women that started with the beginning of capitalist development. This violence consists, above all, of systemic dispossession of women from access to medical knowledge in order to extend control over every sphere of social reproduction.

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