GWST 2800Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Menopause, Surrogacy, Medicalization
28 Jan 2015
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Social reproduction: multifaceted term, drawn on in a number of bodies of scholarship. The reproduction of the labour force and social systems. The practices connected care, socialization, and the meeting of human needs. The material, manual, and symbolic labour involved in meeting the daily and generational needs of human beings. Under capitalism this division follows a delineation between the production of goods and the household. Represents a departure from earlier modes of social and economic organization. Women"s value comes to be associated with their ability to give birth . Macdonald- natural birth at the turn of the twenty first century: implications for gender. Pregnancy and birth as they"re meant to be . What are the consequences of this framing? we think of childbirth as implicated within the biomedical system midwifery is trying to reconceive what childbirth is, or what the natural facts are. The medicalization of women"s bodies and the pathologizing of childbirth.
