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0072/2017 - The cultural representation of a “natural birth”: the positioning of the pregnant body in the mid-twentieth century XX.
A representação cultural de um “parto natural”: o ordenamento do corpo grávido em meados do século XX.

Author:

• Lilian Fernandes Ayres - Ayres, Lilian Fernandes - Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Departamento de Medicina e Enfermagem - <liliayresenf@yahoo.com.br>

Co-author(s):

• Bruno David Henriques - Henriques, B.D - Viçosa, - Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Medicina e Enfermagem - <brunoenfer@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6844-6661
• Wellington Mendonça de Amorim - Amorim, Wellington Mendonça de - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Diretoria de Pós Graduação - <amorimw@unirio.br>

Thematic Area:

História e Saúde

Abstract:

This study aims to discuss teaching strategies directed towards women to institutionalize the representation of normal birth based on the work Natural Childbirth: A Guide for Future Parents, published in 1955. The research partsan historical and cultural analysis of the 1955, 1957, 1960 and 1964 editions of this book. It is aided by materials published, in the same period, which share the same meanings and representations concerning issues surrounding childbirth in the Brazilian context. It is a period marked by retrospectives and the emergence of methods for preparing women for the childbirth process. The results of our analysis - in the light of Roger Chartier’s theoretical framework, above all utilizing the notion of representation in Michel Foucault, indicate that the apparatuses used in the work’s registers sought to propose a disciplinary model for childbirth: institutionalization, medical ion and industrialization of normal childbirth in the Brazilian context of the mid-twentieth century.

Keywords:

Natural ChildbirthHistoryObstetricsHuman BodyInstitucionalization

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Vol. 23 N.11 - NOVEMBER/2018

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Ayres, Lilian Fernandes, Henriques, B.D, Amorim, Wellington Mendonça de. The cultural representation of a “natural birth”: the positioning of the pregnant body in the mid-twentieth century XX.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Feb). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-cultural-representation-of-a-natural-birth-the-positioning-of-the-pregnant-body-in-the-midtwentieth-century-xx/16118



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