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- Title: Beyond Control?: Resituating Childbirth Pain in Subjectivity (Report)
- Author : Outskirts: feminisms along the edge
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 205 KB
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Introduction Much current childbirth discussion in developed countries focuses on 'choice', knowledge and information for women. Women's choices for 'natural' birth, home birth or caesarean birth are supported as rights; 'natural' birth activists argue women's choices are being curtailed; critics of medicalisation argue doctors are making choices on the basis of convenience. In these discussions, women preparing for childbirth are most often represented in contests for control that are best won by carefully considered processes of discernment and decision. As Schultz suggests,