Laboring Women, Coaching Men: Masculinity and Childbirth Education in the Contemporary United States

Hypatia 18 (3):113-132 (2003)
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Hospitals have adopted a rhetoric of family-centered maternity care, and one of the ways in which they show their commitment to it is through the integration of the husband-as-coach model of childbirth into delivery practices. I argue that this model's widespread popularity testifies less to the culture's endorsement of a woman-centered approach than to healthcare's appropriation of “natural” childbirth as a site for the production and reproduction of patriarchal and capitalist power.

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00824.x

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