Is Childbirth With Midwives Natural? The Gaze of the Feminine and the Pull of the Masculine

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ID2384694
AuthorsPaaige K Turner (Saint Louis University)
Year2002
Volume8
Issue5
Pages652-659
Publication date2002-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/107780002237016
OpenAlexW2060963738
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited29

Joining the ongoing dialogue regarding the need for reflexivity in qualitative research, this tale of the author's "natural" childbirth and subsequent research into the field of midwifery explores the tension between postmodern and modern aspects of her Self. The former accepts a lived experience of fragmented, separate selves and partial truth, whereas the latter wants an integrated, whole Self and absolute truth. Using introspection, this tension is understood in terms of two different forms of cultural patterning, the female gaze and the masculine pull. Moreover, the author believes that the term natural serves as a self-contained opposite that allows mothers and researchers to bridge these two cultural patterns

Absolute (philosophy · Aesthetics · Bridge (graph theory · Childbirth · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Gaze · Introspection · Natural (archaeology · Natural childbirth · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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