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Surtees, Ruth Joy.

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Midwifery as feminist praxis in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Midwifery as feminist praxis in Aotearoa/New Zealand./
Author:	Surtees, Ruth Joy.
Description:	336 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4007.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Education, Sociology of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3112791

Midwifery as feminist praxis in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Surtees, Ruth Joy.

Midwifery as feminist praxis in Aotearoa/New Zealand. - 336 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4007.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury (New Zealand), 2003.

The thesis highlights the ways in which the practices of contemporary midwives in Aotearoa/New Zealand are caught within the intersection of an array of competing discourses. The context for this is the reconstruction of midwifery in Aotearoa/New Zealand as an autonomous feminist profession founded on partnership with women. During this time, biomedical interventions into the field of childbirth have continued to increase. The re-configuring of midwifery subjectivities within the historical context of neo-liberal health reforms is explored in this light. Central issues from the data gathered from interviews and participant observation with midwives, based mainly in one New Zealand city, are the basis for the analysis. The analysis draws on insights from critical and feminist approaches to Foucault's theories of discourse, power and the subject. In this way the thesis explores the conditions which came to produce and authorise the concept of ‘partnership’. Which subjects can speak about it, and when? What claims are made about it? What challenges it? Partnerships with women are theorised in the thesis as highly complex and contingent networks of strategic and productive relations. Some issues within this, according to midwives, include negotiating the contested terrain of ‘normal’ birth, the provision for, or resistance to, epidural analgesia, and the doing of defensive practice. These practices are performed through the professional responding to discourses of consumer choice and midwifery accountability. I postulate that while midwifery's theoretical and emancipatory political projects are articulated in partnership with women as a counter discourse to medical hegemony, some midwifery practice itself inadvertently re-inscribes pregnant/birthing bodies within medico-legal frameworks. In these ways, more effective challenges to institutionalised birth may remain constrained. This is an outcome not of the sovereign power of obstetrics over women/midwives, but of attempts by midwives themselves to negotiate heterogeneous forms of risk and keep birthing women, and their own practices, safe. Within these relationships and practices of freedom, the midwife performs professionally to construct herself as what I call an ‘auditable subject’. These processes are seen to lead to the self-regulation and disciplinary normalisation of midwives/midwifery. The technologies of the midwife-self occur within neo-liberal relations of ruling that render the pregnant/birthing bodies of women, and the labouring bodies of midwives, increasingly amenable to subtle forms of governance.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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