Introduction

This chapter is the introduction to the book Birth Justice: From Obstetric Violence to Abolitionist Care. In this introduction, I lay out the problematic of obstetric violence and give an overview of the relevant literature on the subject. I briefly introduce one of the main theses of the book, namely that obstetric violence is a problem of the dissolution of relationality needed for reproductive justice. Additionally, I provide some anarchafeminist methodological considerations and a chapter-by-chapter summary.