Laboring Women, Coaching Men

Masculinity and Childbirth Education in the Contemporary United States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12146331
AutoresCarine M Mardorossian (autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen18
Número3
Páginas113-132
Fecha de publicación2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHypatia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00824.x
OpenAlexW2059873591
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas26

Hospitals have adopted a rhetoric of family-centered maternity care, and one of the ways in which they show their commitment to it is through the integration of the husband-as-coach model of childbirth (the Bradley method) into delivery practices. I argue that this model's widespread popularity testifies less to the culture's endorsement of a woman-centered approach than to healthcare's appropriation of “natural” childbirth as a site for the production and reproduction of patriarchal and capitalist power

Appropriation · Childbirth · Coaching · Health care · Masculinity · Political science · Popularity · Power (physics · Pregnancy · Psychotherapist · Reproduction · Rhetoric · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges