Géographie du corps féminin et pratiques de la naissance en Jordanie. Une ethnographie du milieu obstétrical

Maffi, Irène

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“…In France, childbirth is highly technologized, but the caesarean section rate has not changed much compared with the increases observed elsewhere. In France, there is high use of epidural analgesia (provided during 82.2% of all deliveries in 2016) and hormones to accelerate labour (oxytocin given to 44.3% of women in spontaneous labour in 2016) (INSERM, DREES, 2017).…”

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‘A caesarean section is like you've never delivered a baby’: a mixed methods study of the experience of childbirth among French women

Schantz

Pantelias

Loenzien

et al. 2021

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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‘A caesarean section is like you've never delivered a baby’: a mixed methods study of the experience of childbirth among French women

Schantz

Pantelias

Loenzien

et al. 2021

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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“…As already mentioned, biomedical risk is not the only possible definition of risk, and other similar notions can coexist or dominate pregnant women's and/or health professionals' discourses and behaviours in different contexts (Kaufert & O'Neil, 1990;Kildea, 2006). 4 As in Tanzania, in Jordan a childless woman is stigmatized and can lose her social status and be considered a failure since women's social destiny is strongly related to their identity as wives and mothers (Maffi, 2012a). For Aboriginal women of Northern Australia, giving birth in a hospital far from their family can be a source of anxiety and stress, impacting on their health (Kildea, 2006).…”

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“…The first of these is related to the social constraints and the various symbolic and physical forms of violence to which Jordanian women were often subject (Maffi, 2012a). Although in Jordan as in many other societies sexuality and motherhood are commonly represented as women's 'functions' (Tabet, 1998), low-SES as well as more privileged women seemed to be prevented from experiencing procreation as a happy set of events.…”

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“…One of them who had already delivered a child recalled the 'horrible and frightening' experience of being examined by midwives because 'they were rude and brutal'. In IM's interpretation, the intense fear of pelvic examination was related to a specific body geography which she understood as shaping women's bodily sensibilities, knowledge and mnemonic schemesboth somatic and psychic (Maffi, 2012a). Gendered norms about appropriate bodily appearance and behaviour were incorporated by women from a very young age, generating intense feelings and sensations about their sexual organs: they had been taught that to touch and look at them was haram (religiously prohibited), and that the whole female body ought to be concealed to preserve individual modesty, family honour and social order.…”

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“…The women's narratives about childbirth collected by IM were generally negative (see also Alzyoud et al, 2018;Hatamleh et al, 2013). The topics that regularly emerged were fear of labour pain, the experience of physical and psychological suffering, isolation, disorientation, and the desire to get through it rapidly, while reducing bodily sensations as much as possible (Maffi, 2012a;. As affirmed by a young low-SES mother a few hours after the delivery: 'God should reward us only because of the conditions in which we give birth'.…”

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Conceiving of risk in childbirth: obstetric discourses, medical management and cultural expectations in Switzerland and Jordan

Maffi

Gouilhers

2019

Health, Risk & Society

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In highly industrialised societies, risk shapes representations and practices surrounding childbirth. However, few studies examine the impact of the transnational diffusion of risk in medium and low income societies, where, despite the adoption of biomedical protocols on an institutional level, women and birth attendants often seem to follow different rationales in their practices. In this article, we are interested in the various components of the notion of risk, which shall be understood and examined in relation to specific socioeconomic , political and cultural configurations. Drawing on two ethnographic studies conducted, respectively, in a Swiss university hospital and in three Jordanian government hospitals, we investigate how surveillance and medical interventions are deployed in pregnancy and childbirth in unequally structured health systems and describe negotiations and appropriations surrounding this management. These two contrasting cultural, socioeconomic and health 'system' contexts reveal important differences in the way birth attendants and women consider the notion of risk in childbirth in that it is seldom present in clinicians' and women's discourses and practices in Jordan, whereas it plays a pertinent role in Switzerland. We argue that the heterogeneous configurations of risk mobilised by the participants in these studies reveal that dissimilar histories in terms of medical institutions and health care service provisions, political regimes, economic conditions, and social configurations shape the cultural and techno-medical arrangements of the institutions we studied. Comparing our Jordanian and Swiss ethnographies, we show that the mobilisation of biomedical risk does not happen in a vacuum but rather intertwines with specific social arrangements, eliciting resistance and adaptation that fashion the discourses and behaviours of birth attendants and pregnant women.

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Humaniser l’accouchement au Bénin ? Retour sur l’échec d’un projet de la coopération japonaise

Schantz¹,

Baxerres²,

Aboubakar³

2022

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Depuis les années 1970, des mouvements militants internationaux dénoncent une approche médico- et techno-centrée de la naissance. En réponse à cette « techno-bio-médicalisation », le concept d’« accouchement humanisé » a émergé dans les années 1990 en Amérique latine puis s’est globalisé. Cet article propose d’analyser l’échec d’un projet japonais d’accouchement humanisé dans une maternité au Bénin. Sur la base d’observations participantes et d’entretiens, nous montrons que la proposition des actrices et acteurs du développement japonais se heurte à une forte incorporation de la « science obstétricale » par les soignant·e·s, et plus particulièrement par les sages-femmes béninoises. Plus précisément, en interdisant la présence d’un·e accompagnant·e auprès de la femme qui accouche et en refusant que celle-ci adopte une position autre que la position gynécologique, les sages-femmes reproduisent le modèle obstétrical dominant au détriment du confort et du bien-être des femmes.

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Géographie du corps féminin et pratiques de la naissance en Jordanie. Une ethnographie du milieu obstétrical

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

‘A caesarean section is like you've never delivered a baby’: a mixed methods study of the experience of childbirth among French women

‘A caesarean section is like you've never delivered a baby’: a mixed methods study of the experience of childbirth among French women

Conceiving of risk in childbirth: obstetric discourses, medical management and cultural expectations in Switzerland and Jordan

Humaniser l’accouchement au Bénin ? Retour sur l’échec d’un projet de la coopération japonaise

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