Autonomie žen – de-medikalizace porodu
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
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| Popis | Women's reproductive rights continue to occupy a prominent place within both political agendas and public discourse.** This presentation introduces the findings of a qualitative analysis based on ten in-depth interviews with women who, after experiencing hospital births, subsequently chose to give birth at home under the continuous care of a midwife. The interviews explore the women's own perceptions of their childbirth experiences and the nature of care received, contextualised within the broader framework of the institutional healthcare system. The analysis focuses on female autonomy and active participation in the birthing process as forms of de-medicalising practice. These practices are understood as mediating the tensions between cultural hierarchies and the structural constraints faced by hospital personnel, on the one hand, and the values, expectations, and situated knowledges held by birthing women, on the other. The study examines how childbirth is framed simultaneously through biological and cultural lenses, and how processes of discipline and competence intersect in this framing. Particular attention is paid to the workings of biopower and symbolic violence in shaping experiences of trust and authority in reproductive care. The presentation aims to contribute to ongoing discussions on the medicalisation of reproduction by re-situating childbirth as a significant life event. It interrogates the current paradigms through which reproductive rights are articulated and enacted, thereby offering insight into the contested terrain where institutionalised healthcare meets embodied agency. |