ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2002
Beyond the simple economics of cesarean section birthing: women's resistance to social inequality.
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- Mapping the gendered dynamics of cesarean section: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Overlapping social structures behind Brazil's cesarean section births: A decomposition analysis.PloS one · 2025Article
- "I Felt Like I Was Cut in Two": Postcesarean Bodies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Switzerland.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2024Article
- Association of Maternal Risk Factors with the Prevalence of Caesarean Section Deliveries: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Optimising the use of caesarean section: a generic formative research protocol for implementation preparation.Reproductive health · 2019Article
- Rising rates of cesarean delivery in Ecuador: Socioeconomic and institutional determinants over two decades.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2019Article
- Medical borderlands: engineering the body with plastic surgery and hormonal therapies in Brazil.Anthropology & medicine · 2014Article
- Fear, guilt, and debt: an exploration of women's experience and perception of cesarean birth in Burkina Faso, West Africa.International journal of women's health · 2014Article
- Misrecognition of need: women's experiences of and explanations for undergoing cesarean delivery.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2013Article
- Taming troubled teens: the social production of mental morbidity amongst young mothers in Pelotas, Brazil.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2012Article
- Humanized birth in high risk pregnancy: barriers and facilitating factors.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2010Article
- Anthropology and Epidemiology: learning epistemological lessons through a collaborative venture.Ciencia & saude coletivaArticle
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Abstract
This research explored the reasons for women's preferences for cesarean section births in Pelotas, Brazil. It is argued that women strategize and appropriate both medical knowledge and the technology of cesarean sections as a creative form of responding to larger public debates (and the practices that produced them) on the need for and causes of (de)medicalization. Questioning the reasons why some women engage more actively in this process than others elucidates the ways local forms of power engage gender, economic and medical ideologies. The current debate on why some women prefer c-section deliveries, or indeed if they really do at all, has diverted attention from the utility of the technology itself. This paper argues that for some women, the effort to medicalize the birth process represents a practical solution to problems found within the medical system itself. I end by exploring the socio-biological conditions that have produced a need for the technology.
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