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Reproductive health care appointments: How the institutional organization of obstetric/gynecological work shapes the experiences of women with female genital cutting in Toronto, Canada
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada .
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0770-5471
2023 (English)In: PLOS ONE, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 18, no 1, article id e0279867Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We investigated the social relations shaping the reproductive health care experiences of women with female genital cutting (FGC) in Toronto, Canada. Using Institutional Ethnography, we interviewed eight women with FGC and seven obstetrician/gynecologists (OB/GYN). We found a disjuncture between women’s needs during appointments that extended beyond the reproductive body and range of care that doctors were able to provide. Women engaged in emotional healthwork during appointments by explaining FGC to doctors, reading doctors’ body language, and getting through vulvar/vaginal examinations. Women reported that if they had emotional reactions during appointments, they were often referred to a mental health specialist, a referral on which they did not act. OB/GYNs described their specialty as “surgical”—training centered around treating reproductive abnormalities and not mental health issues. Therefore, the disjuncture between women’s needs and OB/GYNs’ institutional training highlights the difficulties inherent when bodies of “difference” encounter the reproductive health care system.

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Public Library of Science , 2023. Vol. 18, no 1, article id e0279867
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-191688DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279867ISI: 000945652400001PubMedID: 36656810Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85146689860OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-191688DiVA, id: diva2:1735439
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Funding: Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Carol Mitchell and Richard Venn Fellowship in Womens Health; Canada Research Chairin Sexual and Gender Minority Health; Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, a University of Toronto Connaught Grant; Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Womens Brain Health and Aging

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