SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Postpartum Depression, Childbirth, Smart People
30 Mar 2016
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Social context and social relations are important: birth and parenthood are not just about biology, we need to understand social relations. Gender differences: women and the socialization of mothering it is done in a privatized residence. Medicalized childbirth (worts and fox: study of women who went to the hospital to give birth. Postpartum depression (rosenberg: the experience of postpartum depression. 13 when the baby comes home: the dynamics of gender in the making of family. : the transition of parenthood. Worts, diana and bonnie fox women negotiating medicalized childbirth. Giving births in hospitals, medical intervention (i. e. drugs for pain) Findings challenge feminist critique of medicalized childbirth: the absence of medicalized childbirth did not necessarily lead to a positive and empowering experience for women as the feminist critique would predict. Medical interventions did not result in alienation. Rosenberg, harriet mother work, stress and depression: the costs of privatized social.
