La normazione politica e teologica del corpo femminile

Abstract

Women’s bodies have historically been the subject of norming both from a political and cultural point of view. In recent years, after the liberalizations of the last century, there are still regressive pressures that aim to limit and circumscribe women’s rights of selfdetermination, especially in terms of abortion. The IVG, in fact, has always been the subject of incursions, mostly by conservative movements, which have seen the legal protections recognized in the past restricted in countries such as the United States. A certainly fundamental role in the persistence of attitudes and policies that are judgmental and invasive of the sphere of autonomy of women regarding their life cycle and their physiological experiences was played by the Church which, with the sacralization of the event of birth and the contextual censorship of female sexuality, has influenced the role of women in society.