'To make it through each day still pregnant': pregnancy bed rest and the disciplining of the maternal body
'To make it through each day still pregnant': pregnancy bed rest and the disciplining of the maternal body
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DOI：
10.1080/09589236.2011.593321
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Alcalde, M. Cristina
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作者：
Alcalde, M. Cristina
本文提供了一种定性的、非医学的对怀孕卧床休息的分析，以促进女性主义学术对女性的具体化和生殖经验的研究。根据调查和访谈，我从那些经历过的人的角度来研究怀孕卧床休息。我认为，怀孕期间卧床休息严重破坏了女性对自己身体的控制意识，这种破坏在一定程度上表现为失败感和自责感。在强调个人控制生殖过程的重要性并忽视边缘化怀孕经历的文化背景下，妇女的失败感被加剧。然后，我研究了女性如何制定策略，以暂时重新获得对自我和生活的一些控制，从而减少失败的感觉。对女性怀孕卧床休息经历的分析进一步加深了我们对这种经历的理解，这种经历极大地改变了女性的控制感和自律意识，以及她们与身体的关系。它还揭示了怀孕作为一种经历，至少受文化背景和身体的影响一样多。
This article provides a qualitative, non-medical analysis of pregnancy bed rest to contribute to feminist scholarship on women's experiences of embodiment and reproduction. Drawing on surveys and interviews, I examine pregnancy bed rest from the perspective of those who have experienced it. I argue that pregnancy bed rest significantly disrupts women's sense of control over their bodies, and that this disruption is partly manifested through feelings of failure and self-blame. Women's feelings of failure are heightened within a cultural context that emphasizes the importance of individual control over reproductive processes and ignores marginalized experiences of pregnancy. I then examine how women strategize ways to momentarily regain some control over their self and lives and thereby reduce feelings of failure. Analysis of women's pregnancy bed rest experiences furthers our understanding of an experience that drastically alters women's sense of control and self-discipline as well as their relationship to their bodies. It also sheds light on pregnancy as an experience that is informed at least as much by the cultural context as it is by the body.