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Negotiating access to the problematised subject:
- Bomela, Yolisa, Feltham-King, Tracey, Macleod, Catriona
- Authors: Bomela, Yolisa , Feltham-King, Tracey , Macleod, Catriona
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143816 , vital:38285 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: Our ethnography at public antenatal and postnatal clinics involved collecting data from a variety of sources constituting the reproductive healthcare nexus, including interviews with teenaged pregnant and mothering women. We discuss the complexities of trying to propose these interviews to the University ethics committee and difficulties in gaining access to the state healthcare facilities. We also consider a recurring disjuncture in our negotiations for access. The teenaged subject we imagined and anticipated in our research proposal contradicted the already problematized subject the gatekeepers assumed we were going to meet. Further, while our intention was to focus on the myriad aspects of the context which contributed to the construction of the reproductive teenaged subject, the enduring assumption was that our focus should and would be on the individual teenaged pregnant or mothering woman. We discuss balancing these contradictory assumptions and strategies to avoid re-inscribing the taken-for-granted existing institutional hierarchical power relations.
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- Authors: Bomela, Yolisa , Feltham-King, Tracey , Macleod, Catriona
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143816 , vital:38285 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: Our ethnography at public antenatal and postnatal clinics involved collecting data from a variety of sources constituting the reproductive healthcare nexus, including interviews with teenaged pregnant and mothering women. We discuss the complexities of trying to propose these interviews to the University ethics committee and difficulties in gaining access to the state healthcare facilities. We also consider a recurring disjuncture in our negotiations for access. The teenaged subject we imagined and anticipated in our research proposal contradicted the already problematized subject the gatekeepers assumed we were going to meet. Further, while our intention was to focus on the myriad aspects of the context which contributed to the construction of the reproductive teenaged subject, the enduring assumption was that our focus should and would be on the individual teenaged pregnant or mothering woman. We discuss balancing these contradictory assumptions and strategies to avoid re-inscribing the taken-for-granted existing institutional hierarchical power relations.
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Pecha Kucha 4: The right to buy antenatal healthcare
- Authors: Feltham-King, Tracey
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143948 , vital:38297 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: While conducting an ethnographic study of the antenatal healthcare nexus I observed the public/ private partnerships at work within state healthcare facilities. The presence of sales representatives and promotional product placement within these spaces allowed the antenatal clinic to function simultaneously as a market place. This commodification of pregnancy and parenting has implications for the ways in which pregnant women are constructed as reproductive subjects. This presentation shows how the images in an advertorial booklet distributed in the clinic draw on intersecting discourses which construct idealized representations of pregnant women, parenting couples and families. These images present a textual ideal that: stands in contrast to the lived experiences of the women accessing antenatal healthcare in these clinics; ignores the multiple and varied contexts in which decisions about antenatal healthcare are made; and shifts the responsibility for the costs of antenatal care onto the individual pregnant woman.
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- Authors: Feltham-King, Tracey
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143948 , vital:38297 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: While conducting an ethnographic study of the antenatal healthcare nexus I observed the public/ private partnerships at work within state healthcare facilities. The presence of sales representatives and promotional product placement within these spaces allowed the antenatal clinic to function simultaneously as a market place. This commodification of pregnancy and parenting has implications for the ways in which pregnant women are constructed as reproductive subjects. This presentation shows how the images in an advertorial booklet distributed in the clinic draw on intersecting discourses which construct idealized representations of pregnant women, parenting couples and families. These images present a textual ideal that: stands in contrast to the lived experiences of the women accessing antenatal healthcare in these clinics; ignores the multiple and varied contexts in which decisions about antenatal healthcare are made; and shifts the responsibility for the costs of antenatal care onto the individual pregnant woman.
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