Birthing Centers as Ritual Spaces: The Embodiment of Compliance and Resistance Under One Roof: A Case Study

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dc.contributor.authorMcIntyre, Mary Cortney, 1982-
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-04T02:06:43Z
dc.date.available2009-03-04T02:06:43Z
dc.date.issued2008-12
dc.descriptionx, 156 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.en
dc.description.abstractA somewhat unknown option for pregnant women receiving prenatal, birth, and postpartum care is that of a birthing center, where midwifery and medical practices come together in varying forms. After conducting feminist-based, participant-observation research at a particular birthing center in the northwestern United States run by a licensed, certified professional midwife, I use ritual and rites of passage analysis to display both the benefits and downfalls of the mainstreaming of midwifery as found in a birthing center. I discuss how the birthing center is a ritual space. Within this ritual space, elaborated rituals act as both compliance with and resistance to established iv medical paradigms of birthing. These rituals serve as active negotiated appropriation and display the ways in which midwives knowledgeably balance trust in natural birth and medical practice, which both play important roles in pregnancy and birth.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAdviser: Lisa Gilmanen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/8691
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, Interdisciplinary Studies Program: Individualized Program, M.S., 2008;
dc.titleBirthing Centers as Ritual Spaces: The Embodiment of Compliance and Resistance Under One Roof: A Case Studyen
dc.typeThesisen

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