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Journal Article
Experiencing Pregnancy: Negotiating Cultural and Biomedical Knowledge
2014
Overview
This paper attempts to explore the different ways in which women from an urban resettlement area mobilise knowledge, resources, and support systems in negotiating patriarchal control of their pregnancies through different structures of authorities — family, biomedical institutions, and the state. It argues that in bargaining with the intra-household control, women mobilise external resources such as bio-medical institutions and knowledge. Women also mobilise family and community support system in negotiating biomedical power. These micro-resistances provide insights into the everyday experiences of gender—power relations. Women's negotiations with different structures and relations of power during pregnancy are analysed specifically with reference to restrictions on food intake, physical mobility, and use of medication.
