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Worldwide, the right to abortion is under pressure or has already been abolished.In her lecture, gender researcher Franziska Schutzbach explains why right-wing conservative forces are ostensibly committed to protecting the unborn child - but are once again aiming to control the female body. However, anti-abortion politics is also so successful because abortion is still a taboo in the middle of society. A common question that girls and women are asked in the course of an abortion: “Don't you know how to use contraception?” In large parts of society, abortion is still seen as a deviation from the “norm” of motherhood and is associated with failure and bad sex. As a result of this attitude, most women feel guilty and hide abortions because they are shamed by friends, family and even hospitals. Schutzbach explores the question of where this shaming comes from and what role gender stereotypes, maternal ideals and a certain sexual morality play in this.
Program recommendation: On 14 & 15.02 at 21.00 we show She was a friend of someone else by Gosia Wdowik. A documentary theater performance that deals with the fight for the right to abortion in Poland.
Biografie
Author, doctor of gender studies (Dr. phil.), sociologist, lecturer and moderator
Franziska Schutzbach writes, researches, teaches and speaks on various gender issues such as care work and reconciliation, gender-based violence, misogyny and anti-feminism, racism, reproductive health and rights.
She is a mother of two children. She is also the managing director of FemWiss, a member of the Basel-Stadt Equal Opportunities Commission and organizes the monthly feminist salon at the Kaserne Basel.