Reading Birth and Death

Name: Reading Birth and Death
Brand: Cork University Press
SKU: 9781859181768
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A History of Obstetric Thinking

Автор: Jo Murphy-Lawless

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The issue of who should control childbirth remains one of the outstanding conflicts for the women's...

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Автор

Jo Murphy-Lawless

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1998

страници

288

EAN

9781859181768

ISBN

1859181767

Enbook ID

05119003

Издател

Cork University Press

Теглоt

762

Размери

164 x 240 x 26

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The issue of who should control childbirth remains one of the outstanding conflicts for the women's movement, despite almost four decades of campaigning for change. Its continuing relevance suggests that the problem of exercising choice and personal agency remains a political struggle for each woman who faces an institutional system of maternity care which demands compliance with its norms. Since the eighteenth century, obstetric discourse has had a decisive impact on the experiences of birth in countless women's lives. Using the historical records and writings of Irish doctors and maternity hospitals, this book analyzes the core beliefs and practices of obstetric science. These beliefs reveal a central theme of women's incompetence in birth and traces how such a radically gendered account has been so detrimental to women. The author argues that the problem of personal agency which women face stems directly from the way the science has worked. In exploring the currently important thesis of discourse and power in relation to scientific thinking, "Reading Birth and Death" makes an important contribution to the fields of obstetrics, midwifery, childbirth, education, sociology of the body, cultural studies and women's studies.

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