HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Postpartum Depression, Morning Sickness, Cognitive Restructuring
8 Jul 2014
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Gender and ritual - davis-floyd: the way society treats pregnancy and childbirth reveals a great deal about the way society treats women. Believes that child birth becomes somewhat ritualized in order for doctors to control the situation: major life transitions are ritualized - childbirth is a major life transition. Ritualize child birth into a major life transition. Transition, they are neither one thing or another, You become a bystander from the beginning (ex: if you"re. Roman catholic abortion is not acceptable, you have no say) First few months: feeding properly, bathing properly, are you resting ---> the mother is mainstreaming. *(know each stage and what it means: cognitive restructuring of ritual = process of childbirth is transformed to a cultural rite of passage and that transforms to cement the patriarchal status quo. Have little/no control: the symbolic message is felt through the body.
