Embodiment and Disembodiment in Childbirth Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5021996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Madeleine Akrich (0000-0002-2259-1601, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Paris), Bernike Pasveer (Arts and Culture of the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 63-84 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x04042935 |
| OpenAlex | W2039262531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 10 |
In this article, our concern is to describe how body(ies) and self are performed in women's birth narratives through the mediation of a number of significant elements, including technical devices. We will show how, in these narratives, (1) action is distributed among a series of actants, including professionals and technology; (2) that dichotomies appear which cannot be reduced to one of body/mind, but are more adequately described in terms of 'body-in-labour'/'embodied self', each of them being locally performed through the mediation of medical practices, knowledge and technologies, the definition of these elements and of their relations being specific to each obstetrical configuration; (3) that part of professionals' activities is devoted to the detailed management of the articulation between the body-in-labour and the embodied self, and to monitoring their joint transformations
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Articulation (sociology · Dichotomy · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Mediation · Narrative · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 65 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |