Power challenges for head doctors in maternity hospitals:
beyond hegemonic masculinities

J 2015

Power challenges for head doctors in maternity hospitals: beyond hegemonic masculinities

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva

Basic information

Original name

Power challenges for head doctors in maternity hospitals: beyond hegemonic masculinities

Name in Czech

Mocenské výzvy primářů porodnic: za hranice hegemonního mužství

Authors

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Studia humanistyczne AGH, Krakow, University of Science and Technology, 2015, 2300-7109

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

article at the journal web

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/15:00081155

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/human.2015.14.2.157-178

Keywords (in Czech)

výzvy moci; muži v lékařské profesi; medikalizvaný nemocniční porod; spoluúčastné ženství; spoluúčastné jednání; proti-hegemonní mužské jednání a prostředí; genderový řád; autoritativní vědění

Keywords in English

power challenges; men in medical profession; medicalised hospital childbirth; complicit femininites; complicit practices; counter-hegemonic men’s practices and settings; gender order; authoritative knowledge

Abstract

ORIG CZ

V originále

The article analyses the contexts and practices of head doctors regarding childbirth, whether reproducing or challenging the gender regimes. The research sheds light on men’s practices and representations of masculinities in hospital maternity wards and links the personal practices and structural mechanisms reproducing men’s positions of power in the Czech organization of childbirth. It is based on data from research interviews and the public speeches of senior Czech obstetricians and head doctors of maternity wards (15 in-depth interviews and 3 panel discussions). Two basic topics are taken into detailed consideration when discussing the patterns of men’s practices and their discursive representations: (1) defence of the status quo (compliance with the lege artis approach) in contrast to alternative approaches to childbirth by some head doctors and (2) the living paradox of the hospital setting presented as being a formal institution par excellence, while at the same time being an environment for the very informal, individual authority of head doctors.

In Czech

Článek analyzuje prostředí a jednání primářů ve vztahu k porodu, a sice zda reprodukují či mění genderový řád. Tematizuje mužství na půdě porodnic a analyzuje strukturní mechanismy reprodukující mužskou strukturní moc na poli české porodní praxe. Text čerpá z rozhovorů a dalších zdokumentovaných promluv českých primářů a lékařů v seniorních pozicích.

Links

GAP404/11/0621, research and development project

Name: Porody, asistovaná reprodukce a zacházení s embryi. Sociologická analýza současné reprodukční medicíny v ČR.

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Childbirth, assisted reproduction, and embryo manipulation. A sociological analysis of current reproductive medicine in

Citovat

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva. Power challenges for head doctors in maternity hospitals: beyond hegemonic masculinities. Studia humanistyczne AGH. Krakow: University of Science and Technology, 2015, vol. 14, No 2, p. 157 - 177. ISSN 2300-7109. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.7494/human.2015.14.2.157-178.

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ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva. Power challenges for head doctors in maternity hospitals: beyond hegemonic masculinities. \textit{Studia humanistyczne AGH}. Krakow: University of Science and Technology, 2015, vol.~14, No~2, p.~157 - 177. ISSN~2300-7109. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.7494/human.2015.14.2.157-178.

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