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Bodies that Birth Rachelle Chadwick (NRF Research Career Fellow and Lecturer in the Gender Studies Section in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.)

Bodies that Birth By Rachelle Chadwick (NRF Research Career Fellow and Lecturer in the Gender Studies Section in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.)

Summary

In Bodies that Birth, Rachelle Chadwick uses an array of birth stories, from diverse race-class demographics, to explore the narrative entanglements between flesh, power, and sociomateriality in relation to birth.

Bodies that Birth Summary

Bodies that Birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics by Rachelle Chadwick (NRF Research Career Fellow and Lecturer in the Gender Studies Section in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.)

Bodies that Birth puts birthing bodies at the centre of questions about contemporary birth politics, power, and agency. Arguing that the fleshy and embodied aspects of birth have been largely silenced in social science scholarship, Rachelle Chadwick uses an array of birth stories, from diverse race-class demographics, to explore the narrative entanglements between flesh, power, and sociomateriality in relation to birth.

Adopting a unique theoretical framework incorporating new materialism, feminist theory, and a Foucauldian 'analytics of power', the book aims to trace and trouble taken-for-granted assumptions about birthing bodies. Through a diffractive and dialogical approach, the analysis highlights the interplay between corporeality, power, and ideologies in the making of birth narratives across a range of intersectional differences. The book shows that there is no singular birthing body apart from sociomaterial relations of power. Instead, birthing bodies are uncertain zones or unpredictable assortments of physiology, flesh, sociomateriality, discourse, and affective flows. At the same time, birthing bodies are located within intra-acting fields of power relations, including biomedicine, racialized patriarchy, socioeconomics, and geopolitics.

Bodies that Birth brings the voices of women from different sociomaterial positions into conversation. Ultimately, the book explores how attending to birthing bodies can vitalize global birth politics by listening to what matters to women in relation to birth. This is fascinating reading for researchers, academics, and students from across the social sciences.

About Rachelle Chadwick (NRF Research Career Fellow and Lecturer in the Gender Studies Section in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.)

Dr Rachelle Chadwick is NRF Research Career Fellow in the Gender Studies Section of the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations 1. Opening 2. Birthing Bodies: The Politics of Framing 3. Clockwork Bodies 4. Risky Bodies 5. Violated Bodies 6. Resistant Bodies 7. What Matters? Vitalizing Birth Politics 8. Closing References Appendix 1 Appendix 2

Additional information

NLS9781138123342
9781138123342
113812334X
Bodies that Birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics by Rachelle Chadwick (NRF Research Career Fellow and Lecturer in the Gender Studies Section in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.)
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018-03-08
226
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