The Pain and Pride of ‘Angel Mothers’: Disappointments and Desires Around Reproductive Loss in Romania
The Pain and Pride of ‘Angel Mothers’: Disappointments and Desires Around Reproductive Loss in Romania
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“天使母亲”的痛苦与骄傲：罗马尼亚对生育损失的失望与渴望
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2018
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2.3
通讯作者：
Erica van der Sijpt
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作者：
Erica van der Sijpt
在这篇文章中，我强调罗马尼亚妇女如何理解怀孕和婴儿的损失。基于15个月的实地考察，在一个特兰西瓦尼亚的小镇，并在采访和观察“天使母亲”（妇女谁失去了未出生或活产的孩子）在罗马尼亚首都布加勒斯特，我讨论的失望和愿望，表面时，生殖出了差错。对这些“天使母亲”的批评使人们对后共产主义罗马尼亚的生物医学、政治和宗教机构以及持续的社会斗争更加失望。尽管妇女的个人困境与更广泛的结构性缺陷有着深刻的联系，但她们的应对策略是高度私密和非政治的。妇女们专注于在她们自己和她们失去的孩子之间建立一种精神上的纽带，这种纽带超越了尘世生活的艰辛，使妇女们以成为小天使的母亲而感到自豪。视频摘要阅读文字记录观看视频Vimeo
ABSTRACT In this article, I highlight how Romanian women make sense of the losses of pregnancies and babies. Based on 15 months of fieldwork in a Transylvanian town, and on interviews with and observations among ‘angel mothers’ (women who have lost unborn or live-born children) in the Romanian capital Bucharest, I discuss the disappointments and desires that surface when reproduction goes awry. The criticisms of these ‘angel mothers’ throw into sharp relief wider disappointments with biomedical, political, and religious establishments, and continuing social struggles in postcommunist Romania. Although women’s personal predicaments are thus deeply connected to broader structural shortcomings, their coping strategies are highly intimate and nonpolitical. Women focus on creating a spiritual bond between themselves and their lost babies—one that transcends the hardships of earthly life and makes women proud to be the mothers of little angels. Video abstract Read the transcript Watch the video on Vimeo