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Sexuality Research and Social Policy

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19.10.2016

Pregnancy Without Women: Lessons from Childbirth Classes

verfasst von: Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Heather Kane

Erschienen in: Sexuality Research and Social Policy | Ausgabe 4/2017

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In this article, we examine motherhood “scripts,” or cultural discourses, taught in prenatal classes in the US South. Our analysis revealed that these prenatal classes, all taught in the early 2000s, appear to have supported a model of “intensive mothering” that undermined women’s autonomy and power in pregnancy. In addition, the content and messaging of these classes appears to have contributed to a societal tendency to make pregnant women, especially poor women and women of color, invisible while privileging the fetus as a person rater than as a potential person.

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Titel: Pregnancy Without Women: Lessons from Childbirth Classes
verfasst von: Natalia Deeb-Sossa
Heather Kane
Publikationsdatum: 19.10.2016
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Sexuality Research and Social Policy / Ausgabe 4/2017
Print ISSN: 1868-9884
Elektronische ISSN: 1553-6610
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-016-0265-6

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