Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11230/22:10426474

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02610183211001494" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02610183211001494</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183211001494" target="_blank" >10.1177/02610183211001494</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care

Original language description

While the focus on emotions has been associated with the rise of psychosocial welfare and has promised a gateway to accommodate individually diversified needs of citizens in policies, the article shows that the role of emotions needs to be better understood. Highlighting emotions can serve both to empower and to patronize those who experience them. Referring to emotions can thus strengthen hierarchies and downplay individual requests to initiate a change. The analysis of professional discourses on birth care in Czechia shows the value of contextualising emotions. While midwifery discourses apply the emotional context of birth to support women in their specific birth choices, medical discourses use the emotional context to patronize them and to limit their requirements. As a result, policy demands are seen as illegitimate when coming from midwives, who want to see women's choices more respected in care. We analyse this dynamic through intimacy. As a conceptual framework used in sociology of care, 'intimacy' ties individual emotional experiences to collective discourses on care, the body and related feelings. Viewing professional discourses on birth care through intimacy reveals the role of emotions in the collective recognition of the personal struggle for the right to give birth in conditions that respect bodily and emotional integrity, which informs how we think of the role of emotions in policies in general.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-10042S" target="_blank" >GA18-10042S: Role of Intimacy in the Czech Home Birth Controversy</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Critical Social Policy

ISSN

0261-0183

e-ISSN

1461-703X

Volume of the periodical

42

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

129-149

UT code for WoS article

000634490500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85103147055