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Birthing in the Pacific

2001-11-30 Social Science
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Book Synopsis Birthing in the Pacific by : Vicki Lukere

Download or read book Birthing in the Pacific written by Vicki Lukere. This book was released on 2001-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts. The introduction analyzes central concepts and themes: questions of survival, safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices, and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction. Contributors--four anthropologists, a historian, and a community health worker--offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women's past powers in reproduction. Contributors: Ruta Fiti-Sinclair, Margaret Jolly, Vicki Lukere, Shelley Mallett, Helen Morton, Christine Salomon.

Birthing in the Pacific

2001-11-30 Social Science
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Release : 2001-11-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Birthing in the Pacific by : Vicki Lukere

Download or read book Birthing in the Pacific written by Vicki Lukere. This book was released on 2001-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts. The introduction analyzes central concepts and themes: questions of survival, safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices, and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction. Contributors--four anthropologists, a historian, and a community health worker--offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women's past powers in reproduction. Contributors: Ruta Fiti-Sinclair, Margaret Jolly, Vicki Lukere, Shelley Mallett, Helen Morton, Christine Salomon.

A Voyage to Motherhood

2020 Motherhood
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Release : 2020
Genre : Motherhood
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Book Synopsis A Voyage to Motherhood by : Rachel Schmidt

Download or read book A Voyage to Motherhood written by Rachel Schmidt. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific mothers’ experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, postnatal care and early motherhood in the late twentieth century is a topic, a hidden history that has seldom piqued the interest of scholars until this very thesis. While scholars have referred to the experiences of Pacific women in the wider history of childbirth, little has been written that focusses solely on the first-hand experiences of Pacific mothers, except for the study of community health scholar Patricia Donnelly whose 1992 PhD focussed on the childbirth experiences of 50 Samoan women in the early 1980s in Wellington. Further, scholars of Pacific studies, public health and community health in recent years have begun to explore Pacific maternities in order to make sense of the health outcomes of an ever-growing Pacific demographic within Auckland. Nonetheless, within Auckland’s maternity services little research has been done to consider the history and in particular the perspectives of Pacific women who have given birth, in order to make sense of their experiences. It is important to note that histories of childbirth both internationally and nationally have largely been couched in feminist terms that push the idea that the medical profession has forced their hand on a natural phenomenon. Using the voices and experiences of twelve Pacific women, this thesis charts their journey to becoming mothers and their experiences of Auckland’s maternity services focussing on the period 1950-1995. The study explores their experiences against an evolving maternity service and in a period of social change which Pacific women generally embraced. Despite some literature that has espoused the ideas of a controlling medical profession and of irresponsible Pacific mothers who failed to immunise or breastfeed their babies, this thesis has discovered that these Pacific women embraced the medical advice and care they received to ensure their babies were well and thrived, whilst not abandoning their own culture.

Your Choices in Childbirth

1996
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Release : 1996
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Hawaiian by Birth

2017-09 History
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Release : 2017-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Hawaiian by Birth by : Joy Schulz

Download or read book Hawaiian by Birth written by Joy Schulz. This book was released on 2017-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had birthed more than 250 white children, considered Hawaiian subjects by the indigenous monarchy and U.S. citizens by missionary parents. In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy. These children of white missionaries would eventually alienate themselves from the Hawaiian monarchy and indigenous population by securing disproportionate economic and political power. Their childhoods--complicated by both Hawaiian and American influences--led to significant political and international ramifications once the children reached adulthood. Almost none chose to follow their parents into the missionary profession, and many rejected the Christian faith. Almost all supported the annexation of Hawai'i despite their parents' hope that the islands would remain independent. Whether the missionary children moved to the U.S. mainland, stayed in the islands, or traveled the world, they took with them a sense of racial privilege and cultural superiority. Schulz adds children's voices to the historical record with this first comprehensive study of the white children born in the Hawaiian Islands between 1820 and 1850 and their path toward political revolution.

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