HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Davis Floyd, Umbilical Cord, Intravenous Therapy
6 Feb 2017
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Lecture 6 davis-floyd/gender ritual and birth & dr. raz moda/strategies and solutions. The way society treats pregnancy and childbirth reveals a great deal about the way society treats women: see the relationship between society and the way they treat women. Major life transitions are ritualized childbirth is a major life transition: we celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, prior to arrival we have showers baby showers. This occurs in a social cultural context. Societies deepest beliefs centre on science, technology, patriarchy and the institutions that control and disseminate them. Sexist gender lens as western women told in visible and invisible ways their bodies are defective machines. Told they are incapable of giving birth without the assistance of these other male created other machines. The ritual is a patterned, repetitive and symbolic enactment of a cultural belief or balue. The intention is to align the belief system of the individual with that of society.
