Abstract
The article considers vulnerability as a touchstone to analyze the condition of the mother in the media discussions about childbirth. It reflects on the inscription of mothers and their conditions of vulnerability in media framings: as bodies subjected to medical paternalism and to a sexist normalization that culminates in cases of obstetric violence; or as individuals capable of reacting to practices and norms that domesticate women's bodies. Vulnerability assumes a decisive, but also ambiguous political place between the relationality of bodies and the reification of the victim.
Vulnerability; Women; Childbirth; Body; Power