ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Toward an epidemiology of gynaecological violence
GYNVEPI will lay the foundations of an epidemiology of gynaecological violence (GV). GV refers to sub-optimal experiences of care that can be perceived as abusive or dehumanising (e.g. non-consented medical acts, discrimination). Understood as a structural and gendered form of violence, it is a phenomenon that is yet to be fully defined and investigated: in contrast to the neighbouring field of obstetric violence, it has not been researched. Taking Germany as an exemplary setting, GYNVEPI aims at understanding the who, the when, the how, and the health consequences of women’s experiences of GV. Through an innovative, intersectional, gender-expansive and gender-transformative approach to…
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