Tag: Gynecological violence

Becoming a mother within the Montenegrin healthcare system is not a uniform or predictable process, and for most women, it is a traumatic experience that remains unshared and suppressed, overshadowed by the "new life" in whose service their exhausted and silenced bodies are deployed.

Speaking of technologies and gendered experiences, I can’t help but think of the vaginal speculum, the medical instrument commonly used by gynecologists to examine women. Usually, if not always, these techniques cause uncomfortable feelings, and at times traumatic experiences… But the question is, are there other alternative testing methods?