A Different Place to Birth: A Material Rhetoric Analysis of Baby Haven, a Free-Standing Birth Center

Schuster, Mary L

doi:10.1080/07491409.2006.10757626

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“…Safety for participants meant both physical and emotional safety. Rocca-Ihenacho (2017) reports similar findings in her ethnographic study of an FMU in England and the wider international literature has aligned findings (Schuster, 2006;Stone, 2012).…”

Section: The Need For a Change In Care Providers' Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 61%

“…Women had to demonstrate a strong self-confidence to opt for a home birth against healthcare professionals', family and societal views of birth as a 'risky process'. This view of birth outside hospital as 'deviant' and risky is matched by a wide international literature (Hunter, 2003;Schuster, 2006;Deery, Jones & Phillips, 2007;Deery, Hughes & Kirkham, 2010;Stone, 2012;RANZCOG, 2011).…”

Section: Challenging the Status Quomentioning

confidence: 82%

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Challenging the status quo: Women's experiences of opting for a home birth in Andalucia, Spain

León-Larios¹,

Nuno-Aguilar

Rocca‐Ihenacho

et al. 2019

Midwifery

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Section: The Need For a Change In Care Providers' Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 61%

Section: Challenging the Status Quomentioning

confidence: 82%

Challenging the status quo: Women's experiences of opting for a home birth in Andalucia, Spain

León-Larios¹,

Nuno-Aguilar

Rocca‐Ihenacho

et al. 2019

Midwifery

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“…Narratives, however, about the soldiers’ experiences during and after the war (e.g., stories about receiving secret shots of anthrax) are tools the veterans have used to attempt to legitimate the frame, and many of their spouses and doctors have come to believe in the frame. Narratives, in addition to negotiating power (Schuster 2006), are a nifty resource in that they are generally hard to debate or test (Davis 2002:19).…”

Section: Frames and Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Frames and Narratives as Tools for Recruiting and Sustaining Group Members: The Soulforce Equality Ride as a Social Movement Organization*

Powell

2011

Sociological Inquiry

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Structuring collective action, given diverse human thoughts, feelings, and behavior, is an arduous task. This article examines one way collective action can be facilitated by analyzing how social movement organizations (SMOs) use narratives as a key resource for recruiting members and sustaining participation. Data for this analysis were collected through participant observation and in‐depth interviews with 34 participants of the Soulforce Equality Ride (ER), a cross‐country bus journey—modeled after the Freedom Ride of the Civil Rights Movement—that toured 18 schools that ban the enrollment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students. Findings indicate that the ER recruited participants, maintained commitment to the group and its cause, and met organizational goals by (1) crafting a frame that successfully taps into potential members’ existing emotions, ideologies, and experiences; (2) aligning these individual experiences with group messages and meanings via narratives; and (3) creating positive feelings for members. In doing so, SMOs can construct cognitive and emotional links between the individual and the SMO, thereby promoting group goals.

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“…As Schuster (2006) points out, Foucault notes that conflict is necessary for the production of knowledge. Indeed, understanding the “hegemonic medical community” requires examining points of resistance to it (Schuster 2006:10). These points of resistance gesture to the dominance of that medical discourse.…”

Section: Medicine Midwifery and Women's Stories Of Childbirthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These points of resistance gesture to the dominance of that medical discourse. In Schuster's (2006:14) study of a freestanding birth center, the medical model of birth as experienced by some of her respondents “articulates a kind of bio‐power in dismissing other models altogether: to be healthy, clients are told, they must not engage in alternative therapies.” Women who do so and choose midwifery care or homebirth are thus resisting the dominant discourse about birth. As Schuster (2006:14) explains in her analysis of clients utilizing a freestanding birth center rather than a hospital:…”

Section: Medicine Midwifery and Women's Stories Of Childbirthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Midwife to Myself”: Birth Narratives among Women Choosing Unassisted Homebirth*

Miller

2009

Sociological Inquiry

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Most pregnant women in the United States today choose a normative physicianguided pregnancy followed by a medically managed hospital birth. Some, however, choose the care of a midwife during pregnancy and birth, whether in the hospital or, more rarely, at home. Despite growing research on both these paths, a third option chosen by some women has rarely been studied: a planned birth at home with neither a doctor nor a midwife assisting. In this article, I examine the stories told by women in this underresearched population to consider how they make and explain this highly unusual choice. Analysis of online birth stories and in-depth interviews with women who planned and had an unassisted homebirth reveal ways in which these women rely on competing discourses of midwifery and medicine to craft a unique sense of agency in birth .

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A Different Place to Birth: A Material Rhetoric Analysis of Baby Haven, a Free-Standing Birth Center

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Challenging the status quo: Women's experiences of opting for a home birth in Andalucia, Spain

Challenging the status quo: Women's experiences of opting for a home birth in Andalucia, Spain

Frames and Narratives as Tools for Recruiting and Sustaining Group Members: The Soulforce Equality Ride as a Social Movement Organization*

“Midwife to Myself”: Birth Narratives among Women Choosing Unassisted Homebirth*

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