AUTHOR=Corvino Isabella , D'Andrea Fabio 

TITLE=Èquipe, community, traditional values, and reproductive rights

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Sociology

VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2022

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1043241

DOI=10.3389/fsoc.2022.1043241

ISSN=2297-7775

ABSTRACT=Gender stereotypes still surround women's reproductive health for a number of reasons. Moreover, in the last 20 years women's access to essential reproductive healthcare is becoming an issue contributing to inequality and exacerbating different kinds of violence (cultural and structural). Patriarchal system, intimate partner violence, traditional cultural and conservative values have a huge impact on women's access to contraceptive information, services, and induced abortion. Gender-based human rights violation has a higher impact on those women who are part of a minority or suffer a marginalized social or economic condition. 
In the present article, the behavior of migrant women's networks is examined as a case study when they come into contact with the health and care sector with the aim to highlight how, in the context of child birth, they can suffer discriminatory and violent treatment by the community and groups that defend conservative and traditional values due to the exercise of reproductive rights. The investigated context was the Careggi Hospital in Florence, Italy, but in a further investigation the research will take place in different medium-sized cities like Terni and Perugia. The chosen methodology was that of second-level sources  and qualitative interviews with the health personnel who usually deals with these women (2 Focus groups involving 11 persons of the hospital éÈquipe). This article has two aims: (1) To present the conflict between community behavior and the right to reproductive health; (2) To discuss aspects of IPV as degrading or violent treatment due to the exercise of reproductive rights. The main finding underlined the importance to consider the link between rights, identity, culture and relationships with the community.