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Gratuitous violence: radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in South Africa
Disseration(MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/107750 Gratuitous violence: radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in South Africa Gogo, Safiyya u19210109@tuks.co.za Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi Silinda, Zilungile Nqobile UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Obstetric violence Black women South Africa Radical black theory Anti-black violence Disseration(MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2025. This research project provides a critical reading of South African obstetric violence literature. Using radical Black theory, it analyses the frameworks that leading South African and locally based non-South African scholars use to theorise obstetric violence against Black women in the country’s reproductive healthcare settings. I argue that applying radical Black Theory to this literature reveals a gap in the frameworks used by these influential, highly cited, scholars’ – these frameworks fail to capture and account for the gratuitous nature of the violence that Black women are exposed to in these settings. These scholars established that in South Africa, Black women are disproportionately vulnerable to obstetric violence as compared to women from other racial groups. However, they position gender as the primary conceptual category in their theorisations of this vulnerability, modifying it through secondary considerations of race. By adopting the integrative literature review as research methodology and by employing key concepts from radical Black Theory – i.e. social death, gratuitous violence, and natal alienation – in this thesis, I demonstrate how this gendered approach misrecognises obstetric violence as contingent rather than gratuitous. This prevents these scholars’ frameworks from being able to recognise that anti-Black violence is foundational to and constitutive of modern obstetric care institutions. Demonstrating the structural continuity of the historical appropriation of Black women’s reproductive capacities in contemporary obstetric violence, this project proposes that radical Black Theory offers an alternative framework that captures the gratuitous nature of obstetric violence against Black women. Political Sciences MA (Political Sciences) Restricted Faculty of Humanities SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-05: Gender equality 2026-01-30T12:48:43Z 2026-01-30T12:48:43Z 2026-04-20 2025-11-12 Dissertation * A2026 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/107750 10.25403/UPresearchdata.31209046 en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Obstetric violence Black women South Africa Radical black theory Anti-black violence Gratuitous violence: radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in South Africa |
| title | Gratuitous violence: radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in South Africa |
| title_full | Gratuitous violence: radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Gratuitous violence: radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gratuitous violence: radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in South Africa |
| title_short | Gratuitous violence: radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in South Africa |
| title_sort | gratuitous violence radical black theory and obstetric violence against black women in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Obstetric violence Black women South Africa Radical black theory Anti-black violence |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/107750 |