Empowering Disgust
Redefining Alternative Postpartum Placenta Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12099577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Dickinson (0000-0001-8961-3230, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, corresponding author), Karen A Foss (University of New Mexico), Karen Foss (University of New Mexico), Charlotte Kroløkke (0000-0002-9264-5265, University of Southern Denmark) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-128 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s Studies in Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-1409 • E-ISSN: 2152-999X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07491409.2016.1247400 |
| OpenAlex | W2566489283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article examines communication practices surrounding the unconventional yet emerging trend of postpartum placenta use: eating, encapsulating, or burying the human placenta. Through interviews with both supporters and nonsupporters of postpartum placenta practices, we explore conceptualizations of placenta consumption and burial within larger mothering, childbirth, and postpartum rhetorics. We argue that placenta practices function rhetorically within a core frame of disgust, which both supporters and nonsupporters initially use to respond to placenta use. Yet supporters rearticulate the literal meaning of disgust to create an empowering rhetorical frame from which to view placenta practices and motherhood. In effect, supporters reframe the meaning of disgust toward the mainstream Western medicalization of birth in order to position placenta practices, natural childbirth, and mothering as empowering
Biology · Childbirth · Disgust · Mainstream · Meaning (existential · Medicalization · Obstetrics · Placenta · Political science · Pregnancy · Retained placenta · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |