Kerreen Reiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 275383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerreen Reiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerreen |
| FAMILY NAME | Reiger |
| SIGNATURE | REIGER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Suits and Frocks: Dressmakers and the Making of Feminine Identity in Postwar Australian Society
In a context of heightened domestic ideology post–World War II, self-employed dressmakers contributed significantly to the making of the identity of Australian women. Through the skilled work of interacting with their clients and sewing their clothes, dressmakers both supported individual women’s presentation of “self” and operated at the intersection of gender and class relations. Working at home, they were not only making women’s clothes but al…
Telling Families and Locating Identity: Narratives of Late Modern Life
In the context of debates on personal identity and social relationships in late modern societies, this article explores several narratives through which the Australian Generations Oral History Project's interviewees make sense of themselves. As they ‘re-member’ family connections formed in specific time and place—and often recalled through emotionally significant material objects—some tell life stories marked by stability, others by contingency, …
A Design for Learning? A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Curriculum and Organisational Change
Like the sector itself, the study of higher education has expanded exponentially in recent decades. There are now many scholarly accounts of the impact of neoliberal and post-neoliberal policies on teaching and learning practices in universities internationally, and of the managerialist forms of governance accompanying them (e.g.
Rethinking Prenatal Care Within a Social Model of Health: An Exploratory Study in Northern Ireland
Implementation of maternity reform agendas remains limited by the dominance of a medical rather than social model of health. This article considers group prenatal care as a complex health intervention and explores its potential in the socially divided, postconflict communities of Northern Ireland. Using qualitative inquiry strategies, we sought key informants' views on existing prenatal care provision and on an innovative group care model (Center…
Regime change in Australian maternity hospitals
Knights” or “Knaves”? Public Policy, Professional Power, and Reforming Maternity Services
Recent quality and safety discourse stresses locating "human errors and mistakes" within an institutional framework. I go further to contend that, in spite of well-meaning individual practitioners, aspects of a powerful, self-interested obstetric professional culture pose a major barrier to quality childbirth care. Using my analysis, I contrast the profession's "knightly" self-image with critical scholarship, and it examine evidence given to publ…
Domination or Mutual Recognition? Professional Subjectivity in Midwifery and Obstetrics
A neoliberal quickstep: Contradictions in Australian maternity policy
Current Australian maternity policy, while fragmented and uneven, is moving in new directions. Alliances between consumers, sympathetic health professionals and bureaucrats have placed the objectives of improving women’s choices, increasing their control over decision-making and providing continuity of care firmly on the agenda. The state arena is a central space for articulating such demands and policy support has been critical to implementing c…
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…
Fluid experts: Lactation consultants as postmodern professional specialists
Since their accreditation as a professional specialty in 1985, lactation consultants have grown in number and prominence in maternity care. In North America and Australia, breastfeeding management is now a domain increasingly presided over by certified experts. This article explores the way in which this speciality has established a distinctive identity that straddles seemingly contradictory maternalist, and medicalised, discourses. Drawing on pr…
Any Friend of the Movement: Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement
This is a wonderful book ...read it and consider what has been won, and how much more needs to be won, in the childbirth revolution! Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York Kerreen Reiger is absolutely right to see the childbirth movement as the forgotten women's movement, and the great pleasure of this book is to find in every chapter the right questions being asked. Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne For most of the twentieth cen…
Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement
From Tender Care to Tendered Care: The Case of the Victorian Maternal and Child Health Service
Restructuring the public sector along market principles has been a major policy development of the late twentieth century in most western countries. This paper examines the impact of recent political and administrative change on a Victorian universal primary health program, the Maternal and Child Health Service (MCHS). The first section establishes the development of the service in the years when an interventionist state provided bureaucratic sup…
Reconceiving citizenship: The challenge of mothers as political activists
The resurgence of interest in the meaning of citizenship has encouraged debate on its gendered character, especially the relationship between public and private. Informed by such analyses, this article considers the political organizations, in this case in Australia, formed to reclaim maternity care from medical dominance and to promote women's choices as childbearers. As activists, mothers have carved out a new form of politics, transforming the…
Sort of part of the women’s movement. but different
Birthing in the Postmodern Moment: Struggles over Defining Maternity Care Needs
Clean and Comfortable and Respectable: Working-class Aspirations and the Australian 1920 Royal Commission on the Basic Wage
In 1920 the Australian government established a Royal Commission on the Basic Wage with a brief to enquire into and report on the living standards of the working population. Many women and men testified before it. Their evidence provides not only extraordinarily detailed and intimate portraits of the everyday lives of working-class households but more important reveals a process of struggle around competing interpretations of the situation and ne…
All but the kitchen sink: On the significance of domestic science and the silence of social theory
The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian Family, 1880-1940
Australian Women: On the Cutting Edge of Family Sociology
Birthing in the Postmodern Moment: Struggles over Defining Maternity Care Needs
Sort of part of the women’s movement. but different
A neoliberal quickstep: Contradictions in Australian maternity policy
Current Australian maternity policy, while fragmented and uneven, is moving in new directions. Alliances between consumers, sympathetic health professionals and bureaucrats have placed the objectives of improving women’s choices, increasing their control over decision-making and providing continuity of care firmly on the agenda. The state arena is a central space for articulating such demands and policy support has been critical to implementing c…
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…
Fluid experts: Lactation consultants as postmodern professional specialists
Since their accreditation as a professional specialty in 1985, lactation consultants have grown in number and prominence in maternity care. In North America and Australia, breastfeeding management is now a domain increasingly presided over by certified experts. This article explores the way in which this speciality has established a distinctive identity that straddles seemingly contradictory maternalist, and medicalised, discourses. Drawing on pr…
Reconceiving citizenship: The challenge of mothers as political activists
The resurgence of interest in the meaning of citizenship has encouraged debate on its gendered character, especially the relationship between public and private. Informed by such analyses, this article considers the political organizations, in this case in Australia, formed to reclaim maternity care from medical dominance and to promote women's choices as childbearers. As activists, mothers have carved out a new form of politics, transforming the…
Suits and Frocks: Dressmakers and the Making of Feminine Identity in Postwar Australian Society
In a context of heightened domestic ideology post–World War II, self-employed dressmakers contributed significantly to the making of the identity of Australian women. Through the skilled work of interacting with their clients and sewing their clothes, dressmakers both supported individual women’s presentation of “self” and operated at the intersection of gender and class relations. Working at home, they were not only making women’s clothes but al…
Telling Families and Locating Identity: Narratives of Late Modern Life
In the context of debates on personal identity and social relationships in late modern societies, this article explores several narratives through which the Australian Generations Oral History Project's interviewees make sense of themselves. As they ‘re-member’ family connections formed in specific time and place—and often recalled through emotionally significant material objects—some tell life stories marked by stability, others by contingency, …
Regime change in Australian maternity hospitals
Domination or Mutual Recognition? Professional Subjectivity in Midwifery and Obstetrics
From Tender Care to Tendered Care: The Case of the Victorian Maternal and Child Health Service
Restructuring the public sector along market principles has been a major policy development of the late twentieth century in most western countries. This paper examines the impact of recent political and administrative change on a Victorian universal primary health program, the Maternal and Child Health Service (MCHS). The first section establishes the development of the service in the years when an interventionist state provided bureaucratic sup…
All but the kitchen sink: On the significance of domestic science and the silence of social theory
Australian Women: On the Cutting Edge of Family Sociology
The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian Family, 1880-1940
All but the kitchen sink: On the significance of domestic science and the silence of social theory
Clean and Comfortable and Respectable: Working-class Aspirations and the Australian 1920 Royal Commission on the Basic Wage
In 1920 the Australian government established a Royal Commission on the Basic Wage with a brief to enquire into and report on the living standards of the working population. Many women and men testified before it. Their evidence provides not only extraordinarily detailed and intimate portraits of the everyday lives of working-class households but more important reveals a process of struggle around competing interpretations of the situation and ne…
Sort of part of the women’s movement. but different
Birthing in the Postmodern Moment: Struggles over Defining Maternity Care Needs
Reconceiving citizenship: The challenge of mothers as political activists
The resurgence of interest in the meaning of citizenship has encouraged debate on its gendered character, especially the relationship between public and private. Informed by such analyses, this article considers the political organizations, in this case in Australia, formed to reclaim maternity care from medical dominance and to promote women's choices as childbearers. As activists, mothers have carved out a new form of politics, transforming the…
From Tender Care to Tendered Care: The Case of the Victorian Maternal and Child Health Service
Restructuring the public sector along market principles has been a major policy development of the late twentieth century in most western countries. This paper examines the impact of recent political and administrative change on a Victorian universal primary health program, the Maternal and Child Health Service (MCHS). The first section establishes the development of the service in the years when an interventionist state provided bureaucratic sup…
Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement
Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement
This is a wonderful book ...read it and consider what has been won, and how much more needs to be won, in the childbirth revolution! Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York Kerreen Reiger is absolutely right to see the childbirth movement as the forgotten women's movement, and the great pleasure of this book is to find in every chapter the right questions being asked. Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne For most of the twentieth cen…
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Fluid experts: Lactation consultants as postmodern professional specialists
Since their accreditation as a professional specialty in 1985, lactation consultants have grown in number and prominence in maternity care. In North America and Australia, breastfeeding management is now a domain increasingly presided over by certified experts. This article explores the way in which this speciality has established a distinctive identity that straddles seemingly contradictory maternalist, and medicalised, discourses. Drawing on pr…
Any Friend of the Movement: Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940
A neoliberal quickstep: Contradictions in Australian maternity policy
Current Australian maternity policy, while fragmented and uneven, is moving in new directions. Alliances between consumers, sympathetic health professionals and bureaucrats have placed the objectives of improving women’s choices, increasing their control over decision-making and providing continuity of care firmly on the agenda. The state arena is a central space for articulating such demands and policy support has been critical to implementing c…
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…
Domination or Mutual Recognition? Professional Subjectivity in Midwifery and Obstetrics
Knights” or “Knaves”? Public Policy, Professional Power, and Reforming Maternity Services
Recent quality and safety discourse stresses locating "human errors and mistakes" within an institutional framework. I go further to contend that, in spite of well-meaning individual practitioners, aspects of a powerful, self-interested obstetric professional culture pose a major barrier to quality childbirth care. Using my analysis, I contrast the profession's "knightly" self-image with critical scholarship, and it examine evidence given to publ…
Regime change in Australian maternity hospitals
Rethinking Prenatal Care Within a Social Model of Health: An Exploratory Study in Northern Ireland
Implementation of maternity reform agendas remains limited by the dominance of a medical rather than social model of health. This article considers group prenatal care as a complex health intervention and explores its potential in the socially divided, postconflict communities of Northern Ireland. Using qualitative inquiry strategies, we sought key informants' views on existing prenatal care provision and on an innovative group care model (Center…
A Design for Learning? A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Curriculum and Organisational Change
Like the sector itself, the study of higher education has expanded exponentially in recent decades. There are now many scholarly accounts of the impact of neoliberal and post-neoliberal policies on teaching and learning practices in universities internationally, and of the managerialist forms of governance accompanying them (e.g.
Telling Families and Locating Identity: Narratives of Late Modern Life
In the context of debates on personal identity and social relationships in late modern societies, this article explores several narratives through which the Australian Generations Oral History Project's interviewees make sense of themselves. As they ‘re-member’ family connections formed in specific time and place—and often recalled through emotionally significant material objects—some tell life stories marked by stability, others by contingency, …
Suits and Frocks: Dressmakers and the Making of Feminine Identity in Postwar Australian Society
In a context of heightened domestic ideology post–World War II, self-employed dressmakers contributed significantly to the making of the identity of Australian women. Through the skilled work of interacting with their clients and sewing their clothes, dressmakers both supported individual women’s presentation of “self” and operated at the intersection of gender and class relations. Working at home, they were not only making women’s clothes but al…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)