Between Standards and Voluntariness
Midwives’ Alignment Work in Antenatal Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21237145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Gleisner (0000-0003-4318-0593, Linköping University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science & Technology Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2243-4690 • E-ISSN: 2243-4690 |
| Publisher | Science and Technology Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.23987/sts.112830 |
| OpenAlex | W4313431567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Antenatal care in Sweden is voluntary but offered to all pregnant people. It is organised in accordance with an interprofessional standardised programme where midwives do pregnancy check-ups and inform about pregnancy, childbirth and becoming parents. But a standardised programme can be difficult to apply to the varying individuals’ wants and needs. Through interviews with midwives and observation of parent education, the article attends to the tension that arises between standards and voluntariness in antenatal care and the often-invisible alignment work done by midwives to make knowledge accessible, applicable and appealing to parents-to-be. By adding a sensibility to emotion work as part of alignment work the article elucidates the relational aspects in what people do and also how emotions matter within the sociomaterial spaces, such as antenatal care. The article contributes to ongoing discussions about the movement of knowledge and how scientific knowledge is turned into practice
Political science · Voluntariness · Emotional Labor in Professions · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Psychology
Social organization of medical work
The professional stranger
Negotiating the Normal Birth
Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure
Differences in teaching female and male intimate examinations
Expertise and its Tensions
Affect and Effect in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
Laboratory Life
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Prevalence of breast-feeding in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study and health service-related correlates of cessation of full breast-feeding
Emotions and empathic imagination
Science Communication as Emotion Work
Regions, Networks and Fluids
Caring for affective subjects produced in intimate healthcare examinations
Affective Practices, Care and Bioscience
Epistemic Cultures
Meaning and Feeling in the Anthropology of Emotions
The Promise of Emotion Practice
The Articulation of Project Work
Care = organisation + physical labour + emotional labour
Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |