Hvordan føder man egentlig?
(2016) SANK02 20161Social Anthropology
- Abstract
- This bachelor thesis examines how the Danish birthing and pregnancy culture is a dialectic one. It argues that nature and culture, in a classical understanding, gives rise to an ambivalence where a new type of discourse surrounding pregnant women occurs. This discourse focuses on a natural, vaginal birth, but this type of natural birth takes place at a hospital, which is everything but natural. Therefore, medicalization is not denied, but rather accepted, and legitimated through the Danish midwives, who mediate nature and culture. Hence the dialectic aspect. In the rite of passage, that giving birth is, the responsibility is succumbed to the midwives, and they again represent the mediating and legitimating position. Further, I suggest that... (More)
- This bachelor thesis examines how the Danish birthing and pregnancy culture is a dialectic one. It argues that nature and culture, in a classical understanding, gives rise to an ambivalence where a new type of discourse surrounding pregnant women occurs. This discourse focuses on a natural, vaginal birth, but this type of natural birth takes place at a hospital, which is everything but natural. Therefore, medicalization is not denied, but rather accepted, and legitimated through the Danish midwives, who mediate nature and culture. Hence the dialectic aspect. In the rite of passage, that giving birth is, the responsibility is succumbed to the midwives, and they again represent the mediating and legitimating position. Further, I suggest that pregnant women acquire a “pregno capital” (in Bourdieu’s sense) when they try to fulfill the expectations the new discourse is conveying. (Less)
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- author
- Fuglsang, Klara Saga Hedelykke LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- En antropologisk undersøgelse af den danske dialektiske fødselskultur
- course
- SANK02 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- social anthropology, birthing body, pregno capital, dialectics, midwives
- language
- Danish
- id
- 8877638
- date added to LUP
- 2016-06-08 09:13:15
- date last changed
- 2016-06-08 09:13:15
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