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M/othering: Birth, bodies, and the (re)production of culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	M/othering: Birth, bodies, and the (re)production of culture./
Author:	Falter, Britni Fontella.
Description:	93 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Barbra Erickson.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International46-05.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1452781
ISBN:	9780549533214

M/othering: Birth, bodies, and the (re)production of culture.
Falter, Britni Fontella.

M/othering: Birth, bodies, and the (re)production of culture. - 93 p.

Adviser: Barbra Erickson.

Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Fullerton, 2008.

This study examines how American hospital birth and alternative birth environments serve as reservoirs of American cultural ideologies while concurrently reifying differing principles of cultural value. Furthermore, this study explores how American hospital birth policies and alternative birth philosophies have disparate implications for the fabrication of the female self. Utilizing a combination of feminist theory with a semiotic methodological approach, this paper fashions the technological model of birth and the alternative model of birth as symbol systems whose processes bespeak a particular cultural worldview. Specifically, this study asserts that the customs encompassing American hospital birth act as a microcosm for hegemonic cultural values, such as mass (re)production, commodification of the body, technology, and the obfuscation of the female self. Furthermore, the alternative birth movement symbolically operates as a locus of bodily resistance to modern medical obstetrics and dominant patriarchal values by emphasizing female authority, wholeness, and subjective ways of knowing.

ISBN: 9780549533214Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

M/othering: Birth, bodies, and the (re)production of culture.
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