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This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of
becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy,
childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from
sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, general
medicine, and psychiatry, Paths to Parenthood analyses rich
narratives that represent a diverse cross-section of parents,
including migrants, same-sex couples, and single parents.
This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of
becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy,
childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from
sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, general
medicine, and psychiatry, Paths to Parenthood analyses rich
narratives that represent a diverse cross-section of parents,
including migrants, same-sex couples, and single parents.
Is trauma a transhistorical, transnational phenomenon? Gender and
Trauma challenges the standard history that has led to our
contemporary understanding of psychological trauma to answer this
question, and to explore the impact of gender in the experience and
understanding of emotional distress. Bringing together eleven case
studies from all over the world, it draws on methods from history,
gender and communication studies to consider how trauma has been
understood over the 20th and 21st centuries. Encompassing histories
from Australia, Britain, Indonesia, Italy, the Soviet Union, Timor
Leste, the United States and Vietnam, these examples demonstrate
how gender and trauma are inextricably linked, and how the term
‘trauma’ has evolved over time. With chapters on war, political
repression, displacement, rape and childbirth, the cases showcased
in this volume highlight two pivotal transformations across the
20th century. First, the transformation of the trauma sufferer from
perpetrator to victim, and second, the increased understanding of
psychological consequences of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Together, these diverse stories yield a more nuanced picture of
what trauma is, how we have understood it alongside gender in the
past, and how this affects our understanding of it in the present.
Is Trauma a transhistorical, transnational phenomenon? Gender and
Trauma challenges the standard history that has led to our
contemporary understanding of psychological trauma to answer this
question, and to explore the impact of gender in the experience and
understanding of emotional distress. Bringing together eleven case
studies from all over the world, it draws on methods from history,
gender and communication studies to consider how trauma has been
understood over the 20th and 21st centuries. Encompassing histories
from Australia, Britain, Indonesia, Italy, the Soviet Union, Timor
Leste, the United States and Vietnam, these examples demonstrate
how gender and trauma are inextricably linked, and how the term
‘trauma’ has evolved over time. With chapters on war, political
repression, displacement, rape and childbirth, the cases showcased
in this volume highlight two pivotal transformations across the
20th century. First, the transformation of the trauma sufferer from
perpetrator to victim, and second, the increased understanding of
psychological consequences of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Together, these diverse stories yield a more nuanced picture of
what trauma is, how we have understood it alongside gender in the
past, and how this affects our understanding of it in the present.
The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth
in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite
of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned
breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering path to the
alleviation of pain in childbirth resonated with the feminist and
countercultural values of the era. In Lamaze, historian Paula A.
Michaels tells the surprising story of the Lamaze method from its
origins in the Soviet Union in the 1940s, to its popularization in
France in the 1950s, and then to its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s
in the US. Michaels shows how, for different reasons, in disparate
national contexts, this technique for managing the pain of
childbirth without resort to drugs found a following. The Soviet
government embraced this method as a panacea to childbirth pain in
the face of the material shortages that followed World War II.
Heated and sometimes ideologically inflected debates surrounded the
Lamaze method as it moved from East to West amid the Cold War.
Physicians in France sympathetic to the communist cause helped to
export it across the Iron Curtain, but politics alone fails to
explain why French women embraced this approach. Arriving on
American shores around 1960, the Lamaze method took on new
meanings. Initially it offered a path to a safer and more
satisfying birth experience, but overtly political considerations
came to the fore once again as feminists appropriated it as a way
to resist the patriarchal authority of male obstetricians. Drawing
on a wealth of archival evidence, Michaels pieces together this
complex and fascinating story at the crossroads of the history of
politics, medicine, and women. The story of Lamaze illuminates the
many contentious issues that swirl around birthing practices in
America and Europe. Brimming with insight, Michaels' engaging
history offers an instructive intervention in the debate about how
to achieve humane, empowering, and safe maternity care for all
women.
The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth
in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite
of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned
breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering path to the
alleviation of pain in childbirth resonated with the feminist and
countercultural values of the era. In Lamaze, historian Paula
Michaels tells the surprising story of the Lamaze method from its
origins in the Soviet Union in the 1940s, to its popularization in
France in the 1950s, and then to its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s
in the US. Michaels shows how, for different reasons, in disparate
national contexts, this technique for managing the pain of
childbirth without resort to drugs found a following. The Soviet
government embraced this method as a panacea to childbirth pain in
the face of the material and fiscal shortages that followed World
War II. Heated and sometimes ideologically inflected debates
surrounded the Lamaze method as it moved from East to West amid the
Cold War. Physicians in France sympathetic to the communist cause
helped to export it across the Iron Curtain, but politics alone
fails to explain why French women embraced this approach. Arriving
on American shores around 1960, the Lamaze method took on new
meanings. Initially it offered a path to a safer and more
satisfying birth experience, but overtly political considerations
came to the fore once again as feminists appropriated it as a way
to resist the patriarchal authority of male obstetricians. Drawing
on a wealth of archival evidence, Michaels pieces together this
complex and fascinating story at the crossroads of the history of
politics, medicine, and women. The story of Lamaze illuminates the
many contentious issues that swirl around birthing practices in
America and Europe. Brimming with insight, Michaels' engaging
history offers an instructive intervention in the debate about how
to achieve humane, empowering, and safe maternity care for all
women.
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