Going Into Labour
Childbirth In Capitalism
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2024
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4949-7 (ISBN)
Pluto Press (Verlag)
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Explores the politics of childbirth from a Marxist perspective
Childbirth is often described as a natural process, and yet the choices we make around birth, the risks we face and the care available to us, are tightly bound up in the dynamics of the capitalist system in which we live. Capitalist relations shape childbirth in unacknowledged ways but with intensely inequitable, often traumatic, effects.
Going into Labour is a Marxist analysis of the labour of childbirth and birth care. Former midwife Anna Fielder interrogates key features of contemporary childbearing, situating birth as a crucial site of struggle against capitalism.
Fielder emphasises the pay and working conditions of birth workers such as midwives and nurses. She also signals the importance of political struggles in birthing arenas against forces including racism, colonialism, misogyny and cisheteronormativity. As capitalism draws on these forces, shaping contemporary inequities and oppressions, activists work to gestate futures that aspire beyond the constraints of the present.
Childbirth is often described as a natural process, and yet the choices we make around birth, the risks we face and the care available to us, are tightly bound up in the dynamics of the capitalist system in which we live. Capitalist relations shape childbirth in unacknowledged ways but with intensely inequitable, often traumatic, effects.
Going into Labour is a Marxist analysis of the labour of childbirth and birth care. Former midwife Anna Fielder interrogates key features of contemporary childbearing, situating birth as a crucial site of struggle against capitalism.
Fielder emphasises the pay and working conditions of birth workers such as midwives and nurses. She also signals the importance of political struggles in birthing arenas against forces including racism, colonialism, misogyny and cisheteronormativity. As capitalism draws on these forces, shaping contemporary inequities and oppressions, activists work to gestate futures that aspire beyond the constraints of the present.
Anna Fielder is currently a tutor at Massey University, and works as a researcher in the Centre for Midwifery and Women's Health Research at AUT (Auckland University of Technology). She has written and co-authored various publications which relate to pregnancy, birth, childhood or Marxism. She was employed as a midwife in the UK from 2003 to 2008.
Acknowledgements
1. Conceiving Childbirth
2. Stretch Marx
3. Technological Fetish in the Birth Chamber
4. Subsumed by Risk
5. The Gold Standard of Evidence
6. Freedom of Choice?
7. From the 'Womb' of the Present...
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.11.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Mapping Social Reproduction Theory |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7453-4949-8 / 0745349498 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-4949-7 / 9780745349497 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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