Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaCriminalization of abortion in the city of Córdoba (1887-1922): a case study
My aim is to analyze the characteristics and representations of abortive practices in Córdoba city at the beginning of the 20th century, associating them with an emerging and progressive criminalization of abortion. In that sense, I believe that the abortion matter is inextricably related with a nat...
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Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Género. IdIHCS (CONICET - UNLP). Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
2019
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| description | My aim is to analyze the characteristics and representations of abortive practices in Córdoba city at the beginning of the 20th century, associating them with an emerging and progressive criminalization of abortion. In that sense, I believe that the abortion matter is inextricably related with a national-level process called women maternalization, which constructs women unequivocally as mothers. I will focus on a particular period which is anchored in the state legal culture and which includes from the year 1887 to the year 1922. My setting of this period’s start and end points answers, on the one hand, to the sanctioning of the Penal Code and to the establishment of abortion as a “crime against a person” . On the other hand, it answers to the Penal Code reform that modified the treatment of this matter. Within this time span, I could register, in Córdoba city, the first legal cases entitled “abortion” , which could allow my approaching of the popular culture. In this way, I have detected two conflicting areas when it comes to the administration of justice: the state’s legal culture, drawn up by state officers, criminal legal experts and social communicators who sanction and interpret legal standards, establish legal procedures and present the dangers that criminal actions pose to society; and the popular culture, which has its own conceptions about such legal standards. In this article, I will make a thorough analysis of a judicial file dealing with the open court case of a woman accused of “being the presumptive perpetrator of a violent abortion.” Such case allows us to reflect about the emerging and increasingly condemning character of attitudes towards the practice of abortion and about the ambiguities and blurry limits between abortion and infanticide, and between spontaneous and induced abortion. At the same time, the file constitutes an access door for us into the formulation of different discourses that bring tension to the conflictive abovementioned relationships. In this way, expert propositions (the judge, the prosecutor, doctors, among others) become involved with layman ones (the accused woman, neighbors, etc.). |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO339362022-03-16T20:16:49Z Criminalization of abortion in the city of Córdoba (1887-1922): a case study Criminalización del aborto en la ciudad de Córdoba (1887-1922): un estudio de caso Ortiz, Yael Sol Aborto Criminalización Córdoba Argentina Abortion Criminalization Córdoba Argentina My aim is to analyze the characteristics and representations of abortive practices in Córdoba city at the beginning of the 20th century, associating them with an emerging and progressive criminalization of abortion. In that sense, I believe that the abortion matter is inextricably related with a national-level process called women maternalization, which constructs women unequivocally as mothers. I will focus on a particular period which is anchored in the state legal culture and which includes from the year 1887 to the year 1922. My setting of this period’s start and end points answers, on the one hand, to the sanctioning of the Penal Code and to the establishment of abortion as a “crime against a person” . On the other hand, it answers to the Penal Code reform that modified the treatment of this matter. Within this time span, I could register, in Córdoba city, the first legal cases entitled “abortion” , which could allow my approaching of the popular culture. In this way, I have detected two conflicting areas when it comes to the administration of justice: the state’s legal culture, drawn up by state officers, criminal legal experts and social communicators who sanction and interpret legal standards, establish legal procedures and present the dangers that criminal actions pose to society; and the popular culture, which has its own conceptions about such legal standards. In this article, I will make a thorough analysis of a judicial file dealing with the open court case of a woman accused of “being the presumptive perpetrator of a violent abortion.” Such case allows us to reflect about the emerging and increasingly condemning character of attitudes towards the practice of abortion and about the ambiguities and blurry limits between abortion and infanticide, and between spontaneous and induced abortion. At the same time, the file constitutes an access door for us into the formulation of different discourses that bring tension to the conflictive abovementioned relationships. In this way, expert propositions (the judge, the prosecutor, doctors, among others) become involved with layman ones (the accused woman, neighbors, etc.). Mi objetivo es analizar las características y representaciones de las prácticas abortivas en la ciudad de Córdoba a principio del siglo XX, relacionándolas con una incipiente y progresiva criminalización del aborto. En ese sentido, considero que la cuestión del aborto se encuentra inextricablemente relacionada con un proceso a nivel nacional denominado maternalización de las mujeres, que construye a la mujer unívocamente como madre. Atenderé a un recorte temporal anclado en la cultura legal estatal, entre los años 1887 y 1922. Ambos cortes responden, por un lado, a la sancióndel Código Penal y al establecimiento del aborto como “delito contra las personas” . Por el otro, a la reforma penal que modifica su tratamiento. Dentro de este lapso he podido registrar, para la ciudad de Córdoba, las primeras causas judiciales caratuladas como “aborto” , lo que podría permitirme el acercamiento a la cultura popular. De esta manera, recupero dos campos en tensión en el ejercicio de la justicia: la cultura legal estatal, trazada por agentes estatales, expertos legales criminólogos y comunicadores sociales que sancionan e interpretan las normas legales, establecen procedimientos jurídicos y presentan los peligros que el delito significa a la sociedad; y la cultura popular, que tiene sus propias concepciones sobre esas normas legales. En este artículo me detendré en el análisis minucioso de un expediente judicial sobre la causa abierta a una mujer “por suponérsela autora de aborto violento” . Dicho caso permite reflexionar sobre el carácter incipiente y crecientemente condenatorio a dicha práctica y sobre las ambigüedades y limites porosos entre aborto e infanticidio, entre aborto espontáneo y provocado. A su vez, el expediente se presenta como la puerta de acceso a la enunciación de diferentes discursos que ponen en tensión la relación antes aludida. Así, a los planteos expertos (el juez, el fiscal, los médicos, entre otros) se involucran con lxs profanxs (la acusada, lxs vecinxs, etc.). 2019-03-15 2022-03-16T20:16:49Z 2022-03-16T20:16:49Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://www.descentrada.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/DESe074 10.24215/25457284e074 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/33936 spa https://www.descentrada.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/DESe074/10446 https://www.descentrada.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/DESe074/10476 https://www.descentrada.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/DESe074/10461 text/html application/pdf application/epub+zip Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Género. IdIHCS (CONICET - UNLP). Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata Descentrada; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019); e074 Descentrada; Vol. 3 Núm. 1 (2019); e074 2545-7284 |
| spellingShingle | Aborto Criminalización Córdoba Argentina Abortion Criminalization Córdoba Argentina Ortiz, Yael Sol Criminalization of abortion in the city of Córdoba (1887-1922): a case study |
| title | Criminalization of abortion in the city of Córdoba (1887-1922): a case study |
| title_full | Criminalization of abortion in the city of Córdoba (1887-1922): a case study |
| title_fullStr | Criminalization of abortion in the city of Córdoba (1887-1922): a case study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Criminalization of abortion in the city of Córdoba (1887-1922): a case study |
| title_short | Criminalization of abortion in the city of Córdoba (1887-1922): a case study |
| title_sort | criminalization of abortion in the city of córdoba (1887-1922): a case study |
| topic | Aborto Criminalización Córdoba Argentina Abortion Criminalization Córdoba Argentina |
| url | https://www.descentrada.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/DESe074 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/33936 |