Empowering Disgust: Redefining Alternative Postpartum Placenta Practices

Elizabeth Dickenson, Karen A. Foss, Charlotte Kroløkke

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    Abstract

    This article examines communication practices surrounding the unconventional yet emerging trend of postpartum placenta use: eating, encapsulating, or burying the human placenta. Through interviews with both supporters and nonsupporters of postpartum placenta practices, we explore conceptualizations of placenta consumption and burial within larger mothering, childbirth, and postpartum rhetorics. We argue that placenta practices function rhetorically within a core frame of disgust, which both supporters and nonsupporters initially use to respond to placenta use. Yet supporters rearticulate the literal meaning of disgust to create an empowering rhetorical frame from which to view placenta practices and motherhood. In effect, supporters reframe the meaning of disgust toward the mainstream Western medicalization of birth in order to position placenta practices, natural childbirth, and mothering as empowering.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftWomen's Studies in Communication
    Vol/bind40
    Udgave nummer1
    Sider (fra-til)111-128
    ISSN0749-1409
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 2017

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