7. Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures

Sargent, Carolyn; Bascopé, Grace Lloyd

doi:10.1525/9780520918733-009

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Hildebrand

2023

A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology

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Dr. Mom? Conversational Play and the Submergence of Professional Status in Childbirth

Varenne

Cotter

2006

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Through a close analysis of various moments within two hours of video-taped interaction, we investigate properties of the setting that the participants cannot ignore even as they transform them in various ways. These properties are not under local control. What is under control is revealed in the participants' "play" with the properties, including dangerous, "deep" play. In this process, some properties of the participants are rarely mentioned (e.g., that the laboring woman is an MD), others are repeatedly emphasized (e.g. the strength of contractions). And others appear in ways that have not been dealt with adequately in current theoretical frameworks. To deal with life-threatening lies, and jokes about lies, we must move away from theories of hegemonic particularity that rely on a habitus. Rather we must acknowledge the practical understandings revealed in the collective submergence of that which may be actively noted as potentially relevant and then set aside so that other tasks can be foregrounded and achieved.

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Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Modern Birth in South India

Hollen

2003

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As reproduction becomes increasingly biomedicalized throughout the globe, reproductive technologies are used in unique ways and imbued with different meanings. This article explores why lower–class women in south India in the 1990s were demanding to have childbirth labors induced with oxytocin drugs while rejecting anesthesia. Cultural constructions women's reproductive power are evoked and reworked in discourses of modernity that explain this preference. Discourses on relationships among gender, pain, and modernity relate to political—economic constraints on hospitals to perpetuate this practice, [modernity; reproductive technologies; gender; India]

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7. Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures

Cited by 5 publications

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Counted: Understanding The Problem, Perception, And Reaction To Global Maternal Mortality

Counted: Understanding The Problem, Perception, And Reaction To Global Maternal Mortality

Dr. Mom? Conversational Play and the Submergence of Professional Status in Childbirth

Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Modern Birth in South India

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