Taking care, bringing Life: A post-structuralist feminist analysis of maternal discourses of mothers and dais in India

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dc.contributor.authorAgarwal, Vinita
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-04T18:26:47Z
dc.date.available2018-09-04T18:26:47Z
dc.date.issued2017-02-03
dc.description.abstractMy poststructuralist feminist reading of the antenatal and birthing practices of women (N=25) living in a basti in India makes visible how the meanings of maternal experiences constituted as our ways open discursive spaces for the mothers and dais as procreators to: challenge (i.e., question the authority of), co-opt (i.e., conditionally adopt), and judge (i.e., employ sanctioned criteria to regulate) competing knowledge production forms. In critiquing maternal knowledge as feminist discourse, the women’s strategies contribute theoretically to an integrative construction of care by reclaiming displaced knowledge discourses and diversity in meaning production. Pragmatically, consciousness-raising collectives comprising the mothers and dais can co-create narratives of our ways of maternal experiences articulated in public discourse to sustain equitability of knowledge traditions in migrant urban Third World contexts.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2016.1278492en_US
dc.format.extent34 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articles preprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2WM13X6J
dc.identifier.citationAgarwal, V. (2018). Taking Care, Bringing Life: A Post-structuralist Feminist Analysis of Maternal Discourses of Mothers and Dai s in India. Health communication, 33(4), 423-432.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/11211
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtSalisbury Universityen_US
dc.subjectMaternal healthen_US
dc.subjectPoststructuralist feminist theoryen_US
dc.subjectSouth Asian feminismen_US
dc.subjectDaien_US
dc.subjectMigrant communitiesen_US
dc.subjectUntrained birth attendantsen_US
dc.subjectMidwiferyen_US
dc.subjectAntenatal and birthing practices of womenen_US
dc.subjectMaternal discoursesen_US
dc.subjectIndiaen_US
dc.titleTaking care, bringing Life: A post-structuralist feminist analysis of maternal discourses of mothers and dais in Indiaen_US
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