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Santos, M., Augusto, A., Clausen, J. A. & Shabot, S. C. (2019). Essentialism as a form of resistance: An ethnography of gender dynamics in contemporary home births. Journal of Gender Studies. 28 (8), 960-972
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M. J. Santos et al.,  "Essentialism as a form of resistance: An ethnography of gender dynamics in contemporary home births", in Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 960-972, 2019
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@article{santos2019_1713621022375,
	author = "Santos, M. and Augusto, A. and Clausen, J. A. and Shabot, S. C.",
	title = "Essentialism as a form of resistance: An ethnography of gender dynamics in contemporary home births",
	journal = "Journal of Gender Studies",
	year = "2019",
	volume = "28",
	number = "8",
	doi = "10.1080/09589236.2019.1650256",
	pages = "960-972",
	url = "https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1650256"
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Essentialism as a form of resistance: An ethnography of gender dynamics in contemporary home births
T2  - Journal of Gender Studies
VL  - 28
IS  - 8
AU  - Santos, M.
AU  - Augusto, A.
AU  - Clausen, J. A.
AU  - Shabot, S. C.
PY  - 2019
SP  - 960-972
SN  - 0958-9236
DO  - 10.1080/09589236.2019.1650256
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1650256
AB  - Feminist scholars have criticised the essentialist construction of femininity associated with ‘natural’ childbirth movements. Along these debates, planned midwife-attended home births stand as the typical representation of this counterculture. In this article, we present data from a multi-sited ethnography on Portuguese home births where we analyse how gender ideologies are reproduced and operationalised by families and home birth professionals. Our findings illustrate how home birth care and associated practices are configuring apparently contradicting gender ideologies. Essentialist perspectives, which conceive birth as an opportunity to reconnect with women's oppressed femininity, coexist with non-binary conceptions of gender, where masculinity and femininity are regarded as fluid forms of energy that everyone has in different degrees, and where men are potentially welcomed in the birth setting, either as fathers or as professionals. Given the androcentric references of modern obstetrics and the marginal position of home birth, we argue that essentialism was constructed as a form of resistance.
ER  -