Rhea Dempsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhea Dempsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhea |
| FAMILY NAME | Dempsey |
| SIGNATURE | DEMPSEY R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing birth in a culture of fear: An Embodied Crisis of Late Modernity
Drawing on recent multidisciplinary work, this paper considers the emerging sense of a crisis around childbirth in late or post-modern western culture. Not only are many health professionals and birth activists expressing concern about rising rates of medical intervention in birth but physiological birth is increasingly defined as difficult and even unattainable. A decline in cultural and individual confidence in women’s birthing capacity seems p…
Performing birth in a culture of fear: An Embodied Crisis of Late Modernity
Drawing on recent multidisciplinary work, this paper considers the emerging sense of a crisis around childbirth in late or post-modern western culture. Not only are many health professionals and birth activists expressing concern about rising rates of medical intervention in birth but physiological birth is increasingly defined as difficult and even unattainable. A decline in cultural and individual confidence in women’s birthing capacity seems p…
Performing birth in a culture of fear: An Embodied Crisis of Late Modernity
Drawing on recent multidisciplinary work, this paper considers the emerging sense of a crisis around childbirth in late or post-modern western culture. Not only are many health professionals and birth activists expressing concern about rising rates of medical intervention in birth but physiological birth is increasingly defined as difficult and even unattainable. A decline in cultural and individual confidence in women’s birthing capacity seems p…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (1 works) · Modernity (1 works) · Parallels (1 works) · Political science (1 works) · Sociology (1 works)