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Negotiated Breastfeeding
Based on an ethnography of postpartum consultations by independent midwives in Switzerland, this book produces unique insights into home-birth parents’ breastfeeding journey from the first hours after birth to weaning. Considered the "natural" continuity of childbirth without intervention, breastfeeding is a fundamental component of the holistic, continuous and individualised care independent midwives provide as they engage with parents in a shared construction of meaning around breastfeeding. This book offers new perspectives on the conceptualisation of breastfeeding as a shared process. Parents, in collaboration with their midwife and baby, are jointly constructing "negotiated breastfeed...
Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This volume contains social science analyses of Swiss, Chilean, Mexican, US, Greek, and Irish obstetrics and obstetricians, particularly around their reasons for the overuse of cesareans; a chapter on "4 Stages of Cognition" and a condition called "Substage," which describes how these concepts apply to obstetricians; and a chapter on why obstetricians fear home birth. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do. An excerpt from Vania Smith-Oka and Lydia Dixon's chapter: For systemic changes to occur, we must understand doctors’ decision-making rationales and take their fear-based perspectives about risk and responsibility into account, while also paying attention to the concerns raised by scholars and activists.
Baloch Midwives
This book is the first major ethnography of Baloch midwives in Pakistan. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Balochistan province, it shows how dhīnabogs/dheenabogs (Baloch midwives ranging in age from about 30 to 80) and their dhīnabogirī (midwifery) aid women and their kin through labor and postpartum recovery. Its chapters show how Baloch midwives’ forms and ethics of care have persisted, despite nearly two centuries of British colonial policies and the subsequent disparaging official views regarding South Asian Indigenous midwives, commonly known as dāīs, in both postcolonial India and Pakistan. Through their continued presence and effective uses of their traditional med...
Birth as an American Rite of Passage
This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the "standard procedures" that are routinely used to "manage" American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals that enact and transmit the core values of the American technocracy, thereby answering the pressing question of why these interventions continue to be performed despite all evidence to the contrary. This third edition brings together Davis-Floyd's insights into the intense ritualization of labor and birth and the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of birth with new data collected in recent years.
Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality
Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.
Doulas in Italy
This book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals in Italy, considers their training, practices, and representation, and analyses their role in national and international context. Doulas offer emotional, informational and practical support to women and their families during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. Pamela Pasian explores the development of this ‘new’ profession and how doulas are defining their space in the Italian maternity care system. Whilst doulas are gaining recognition they are also facing opposition. The book reflects on the conflicts and collaborations between doulas and midwives, as well as relations between different doula associations. Interweaving ethnography and autoethnography, it will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists and those working in health and maternity care.
Pregnancy and Birth in Russia
This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary Russia, framed by changes to the healthcare system and the roles of its participants after socialism. The chapters consider multiple perspectives and interactions between women and professionals and the structural and institutional pressures they face when striving for better conditions and treatment. Russian maternity care is characterized by the vivid mix of legacy of Soviet paternalism and medicalization, bureaucratic principles of state regulation (with high level of centralization and lack of professional autonomy) and global neoliberal tendencies. Maternity care pr...
Tu seras une mère féministe
Si la maternité est une très grande joie, elle est aussi une vraie claque pour de nombreuses femmes. Parce qu’être mère dans une société patriarcale, c’est se retrouver dépossédée de son corps, de son identité, de ses choix, mais c’est aussi être aux prises avec les inégalités domestiques, les discriminations professionnelles, les injonctions écrasantes et l’isolement social. Et pour toute une génération de femmes élevées dans une perspective égalitaire, la désillusion est grande. Ce serait donc ça, être mère ? Croisant des témoignages de femmes et des analyses de spécialistes, Aurélia Blanc, journaliste et mère, s’attaque ici aux préjugés et aux injust...
我是媽媽，也是一位女性主義者！
女性主義×母職實作 從懷孕到哺乳，從伴侶到社會 媽媽們要奪回屬於母親的權利！ 「我經常自問，那些和我一樣選擇生育，卻不認同傳統刻板印象那種媽媽寶貝粉紅世界的女性們，她們究竟在哪？」 媽媽，是懷胎十月產下孩子的女性、是為了孩子犧牲奉獻的偉大角色、是操持一切大小事的多工職業，卻也是……最容易被罵的人？ 這也不對，那也不對！ 那要不試試當一位「女性主義媽媽」？ 懷孕、生產、哺乳、育兒等每個階段，面對大小不一的社會「勸導」，媽媽們很常非自願地得到來自各方的批評指教： 「雖然還有剖腹...
