Kavanagh, Lynsey (2018) ‘Standing alongside’ and in solidarity with Traveller women: minority ethnic women’s narratives of racialized obstetric violence. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Abstract
This study is an exploration of Traveller women’s experience of pregnancy loss in Ireland. It
examines the individual, interpersonal and structural factors which mediate Traveller women’s
experience. Through the utilisation of a participant structured interview influenced by the
biographical narrative interpretive method (BNIM), this study has explored the pregnancy loss
experience of eleven Traveller women spanning over a 30-year period. Using the voice-centred
relational (VCR) method of analysis, this study suggests that the broader structural landscape
of discrimination, racism, sexism, marginalisation and inequality is integral to understanding
Traveller women’s lived experiences, including pregnancy loss. It highlights Traveller
women’s experiences of disrespectful and abusive treatment by health services during and after
pregnancy loss; this includes neglect, abandonment, non-consented treatment and
discrimination. It argues that Traveller women’s experiences of pregnancy loss are shaped and
pronounced by gendered racism and suggests that these experiences are racialized obstetric
violence on the basis of gender and ethnicity.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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Keywords: | solidarity; Traveller women; minority ethnic women’s narratives; racialized obstetric violence; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Applied Social Studies |
Item ID: | 11209 |
Depositing User: | IR eTheses |
Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2019 15:32 |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/11209 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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