Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories

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dc.contributor.authorChadwick, Rachelle Joyen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-06T11:37:01Z
dc.date.available2014-10-06T11:37:01Z
dc.date.issued2007en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study focuses on the construction of subjectivity in and through the telling of birth stories. Drawing on 50 interviews with middle-class women, most of who "chose" to birth either at home or via elective caesarean section, the thesis explores how women make birth "choices" and "experience" home-birth and caesarean-birth within a South African setting. Furthermore, by employing a range of theoretical resources, including the work of Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Young and materialist feminists such as Nancy Hartsock and Maria Mies, this study explores the forms of embodied subjectivity that emerge in birth narratives. Engaging in both an ideological analysis and a narrative analysis, the thesis shows how women's "choices" and "experiences" are always situated within or in relation to cultural story lines, dominant ideologies and material contexts. However, at the same time, through the use of a Kristevan theory of bodieslanguage- subjectivity, the thesis also demonstrates how "the body" itself often becomes transfused into women's talk about birth, resulting in paradoxical and contradictory forms of subjectivity.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationChadwick, R. J. (2007). <i>Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8187en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationChadwick, Rachelle Joy. <i>"Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8187en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationChadwick, R. 2007. Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Chadwick, Rachelle Joy AB - This study focuses on the construction of subjectivity in and through the telling of birth stories. Drawing on 50 interviews with middle-class women, most of who "chose" to birth either at home or via elective caesarean section, the thesis explores how women make birth "choices" and "experience" home-birth and caesarean-birth within a South African setting. Furthermore, by employing a range of theoretical resources, including the work of Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Young and materialist feminists such as Nancy Hartsock and Maria Mies, this study explores the forms of embodied subjectivity that emerge in birth narratives. Engaging in both an ideological analysis and a narrative analysis, the thesis shows how women's "choices" and "experiences" are always situated within or in relation to cultural story lines, dominant ideologies and material contexts. However, at the same time, through the use of a Kristevan theory of bodieslanguage- subjectivity, the thesis also demonstrates how "the body" itself often becomes transfused into women's talk about birth, resulting in paradoxical and contradictory forms of subjectivity. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories TI - Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8187 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/8187
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationChadwick RJ. Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8187en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherPsychologyen_ZA
dc.titleParadoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Storiesen_ZA
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