Mothers who Demand C-Sections – What are the Stakes at Play for Women?
Bouchard, Alexandra
Mothers who Demand C-Sections – What are the Stakes at Play for Women? - 2016.
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The authors of this article have noticed that, both in medicalliterature as in clinical practice, there are increasing numbers ofnon-essential C-sections being performed at the mother’s requestfor the birth of a first baby. They adopt a psychoanalytical stanceas a means of exploring the desires and defence mechanisms atplay in motivating such demands, and they articulate the questionof giving birth with that of being a woman. They offer a description of the processes which have led them to speculate on thefollowing question – does the desire to avoid the sexual dimension of giving birth lie at the origin of a request on the part ofsome women to give birth via a C-section?
Mothers who Demand C-Sections – What are the Stakes at Play for Women? - 2016.
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The authors of this article have noticed that, both in medicalliterature as in clinical practice, there are increasing numbers ofnon-essential C-sections being performed at the mother’s requestfor the birth of a first baby. They adopt a psychoanalytical stanceas a means of exploring the desires and defence mechanisms atplay in motivating such demands, and they articulate the questionof giving birth with that of being a woman. They offer a description of the processes which have led them to speculate on thefollowing question – does the desire to avoid the sexual dimension of giving birth lie at the origin of a request on the part ofsome women to give birth via a C-section?
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