Separate, but Less Unequal
Fetal Ultrasonography and the Transformation of Expectant Mother/Fatherhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2369129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margarete Sandelowski (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 230-245 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124394008002006 |
| OpenAlex | W2005544613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 50 |
| References cited | 37 |
Fetal ultrasonography has made women's and men's relationship to the fetus more equal. Drawing on information obtained from multiple conjoint interviews with 62 childbearing couples, I suggest that although women and men are both advantaged by fetal ultrasonography, expectant fathers' experience of the fetus is always enhanced, whereas pregnant women's experience may also be attenuated. For men, fetal ultrasonography is like a prosthetic device: an enabling mechanism that permits them access to a female world from which they have been excluded because of their limited biological role in reproduction. For women, fetal ultrasonography is enabling, but it may also be a disabling mechanism that disrupts their privileged access to the fetus
Biology · Developmental psychology · Fetus · Obstetrics · Physics · Pregnancy · Ultrasonography · Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Medicine · Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics · Psychology · Surgery
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Medical Technology and Childbirth
Seeing and Knowing the Womb
Naître déjà fille ou garçon
‘Recombining’ biological motherhoods. Towards two ‘complete’ biological mothers
Ec-statically Queer Images
Picture perfect
Fetal sex determination and gendered prenatal consumption
Fetal Ultrasound as Intrusion
Locating the foetal subject
Expectant Israeli Fathers and the Medicalized Pregnancy
Ideal Positions
My Attitude Made Me Do It”
Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Mediation of Morality
New media, expectant motherhood, and transnational families
Exploring the experiences of pregnant women in the U.S. during the first year of the Covid‐19 pandemic
Grounded Theory and Nursing Knowledge
Channel of Desire
The Placental Body in 4D
Provisionally pregnant
Ambiguous Encounters, Uncertain Foetuses
Just a bystander'? Men's place in the process of fetal screening and diagnosis
Seeing and knowing
Screening for breast cancer
Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy
Making men matter
Technological experiences and end-users' identification work - investigating expectant mothers' prenatal ultrasound experiences and their reconfigurations
Stillbirth and Loss
At the Back Stage of Prenatal Care
The Social Life of Emergency Contraception in the United States
From the Guest Editors
Re-visioning Ultrasound through Women's Accounts of Pre-abortion Care in England
I'm Not the One They're Sticking the Needle Into
Anticipatory Socialization of Pregnant Women
The Impact of Ultrasound on Prenatal Attachment Among Disembodied and Embodied Knowers
I Thought My Heart Would Burst
Seeing the Baby, Doing Family
The Ultrasonic Picture Show and the Politics of Threatened Life
Representing and intervening
Wakey wakey baby
Output that counts
It's them faulty genes again
Gendered imaginaries
Ultrasound as a technology of reassurance? How pregnant women and health care professionals articulate ultrasound reassurance and its limitations
Why do women seek ultrasound scans from commercial providers during pregnancy
It was a real good show
Split at the Root
The Specular Un/Making of Kinship
Recreating motherhood
Power and the profession of obstetrics
Qualitative methods in family research
With Child in Mind
Pregnant Embodiment
Of Woman Born
The Captured Womb
The Politics of Reproduction
The Maternal-Fetal Dyad Exploring the Two-Patient Obstetric Model
Reproductive Gifts and Gift Giving
Choice, Gift, or Patriarchal Bargain? Women's Consent to In Vitro Fertilization in Male Infertility
The Americans
Reproductive technologies
Discovering Reality
Qualitative methods in family research
An interview study of pregnant women's attitudes to ultrasound scanning
Fetal Images
The role of obstetrical rituals in the resolution of cultural anomaly
Machina ex Dea
Organs Without Bodies
The Dynamics of Marital Bargaining in Male Infertility
Husbands' participation in fertility treatment
| Unique citing works | 50 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |