عنوان

Telling bodies performing birth :

(Number (ISBN

0231109148

(Number (ISBN

0231109156

(Number (ISBN

9780231109147

(Number (ISBN

9780231109154

Number

b791894

Title Proper

Telling bodies performing birth :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

everyday narratives of childbirth /

First Statement of Responsibility

Della Pollock.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1999.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 290 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Popular cultures, everyday lives

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index.

Text of Note

""Birth stories," Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth." "Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the depths of terror, flirting with disaster only to end with a profound sense of relief at what medical discourse calls a "good outcome." Others represent pain, make counterclaims on reproductive technologies, and suggest complex associations between maternity, sexuality, and body politics in the contemporary United States. Pollock retells stories about some of the injustices that structure giving and telling birth--finding there a reckoning with the unknown and unknowable." "Focusing on the performances of birth stories, Pollock writes an intimate ethnography: an account of listening "body to body" to stories that press the borders of cultural critique with virtuosity, possibility, desire, and risk. She draws on cultural criticism, performance studies, and narrative theory to unpack this long-ignored practice. Most striking, however, are the stories presented here: unsanctioned, bold, fragmentary, and often furtive, they both unnerve and inspire even as they realize and resist cultural norms. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Childbirth-- Social aspects-- United States.

Mothers-- United States-- Social life and customs.

Mothers-- United States, Interviews.

Women-- United States-- Social life and customs.

Women-- United States, Interviews.

Labor, Obstetric.

Social Behavior.

Women.

Childbirth-- Social aspects.

Geburt

Mothers-- Social life and customs.

Mothers.

Mündliche Erzählung

Psychische Verarbeitung

Women-- Social life and customs.

Women.

United States.

USA.

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Book Number

Pollock, Della.

Date of Transaction

20201207051009.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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