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Title: | Watching One Born Every Minute: Negotiating the terms of the 'good birth' |
Authors: | De Benedictis, S |
Issue Date: | 10-Nov-2016 |
Citation: | De Benedictis, S. (2016) 'Watching One Born Every Minute: Negotiating the terms of the ‘good birth’ in Mosely, R., Wheatley, H. and Wood, H. (eds) Television for Women: New Directions. London: Routledge, pp. 110-127. doi: 10.4324/9781315690896-17. |
Abstract: | Birth has been firmly placed in the cultural spotlight. Among a broader contemporary interest in maternity, in the UK Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning television programme One Born Every Minute (Channel 4, 2010-) underscores that women’s birthing experiences are receiving an unprecedented amount of airtime. The show presents itself as a documentary, purporting to reflect birthing experiences to entertain and educate viewers. Yet, despite claims of neutrality and education, these representations are highly contradictory and constructed, offering ‘good’/‘bad’ birthing processes and bodies, which contribute to power relations and social inequalities. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/16495 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315690896-17 |
ISBN: | 978-1-315-69089-6 (ebk) 978-1-138-91429-2 (hbk) 978-1-138-91429-2 (pbk) |
Other Identifiers: | ORCID iD: Sara De Benedictis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1998-1078 6 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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