'Nobody in a Maternity Hospital Really Talks to You': Socialist Legacies and Consumerism in Czech Women's Childbirth Narratives

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F14%3A43924187" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/14:43924187 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2014.50.6.150" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2014.50.6.150</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2014.50.6.150" target="_blank" >10.13060/00380288.2014.50.6.150</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
'Nobody in a Maternity Hospital Really Talks to You': Socialist Legacies and Consumerism in Czech Women's Childbirth Narratives
Original language description
This article aims to show how eight women, most of them with higher education, experienced, perceived, and understood birth care in the context of the post-socialist transformation in the Czech Republic. It is based on narrative interviews and a thematicanalysis of them. From a description of women's birth-care experiences the author fi nds that women are most criti- cal of the behaviour of health-care workers and the lack of communication provided by the system. Discussing the narrators' birth-care requirements she notes the strategies women use to attain the form of care they wished. Finally, the author observes that the women she interviewed exhibit diverse understandings of birth care, on which basis the author identifi es fi ve distinct notions of birth care that differ in three key aspects: (1) women's attitudes to medical interventions; (2) their awareness of birth care; (3) their subjectivity and position in relation to birth-care providers. These ranged from complete acceptan
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GPP404%2F11%2FP089" target="_blank" >GPP404/11/P089: Natural childbirth movement and feminist approaches to childbirth in the Czech Republic: Systems of social actions and thought</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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