Essentialism as a form of resistance: an ethnography of gender dynamics in contemporary home births
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DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2019.1650256
Abstract: ABSTRACT Feminist scholars have criticised the essentialist construction of femininity associated with ‘natural’ childbirth movements. Along these debates, planned midwife-attended home births stand as the typical representation of this counterculture. In this article, we present… read more here.
Keywords: home; ethnography; gender; birth ... See more keywords