Normal ou cesárea? Reflexões sobre as disputas em torno do fazer nascer

Abstract

This dissertation is born out of two concerns, one resulting from the other: there is a dispute over meaning around giving birth; and if so, what dispute of meaning is this? Mobilizing thinkers like Peirano, Diniz, Leal, Tornquist, Strathern, Jordan, Russo, Rezende, Ortner and thinkers like Mauss and Foucault, among others, this dissertation builds a web that puts these disputes of meanings into play. The analysis of eleven birth reports available on the YouTube platform and their respective comments guide the discussions produced in this research. From the word game “Normal or cesarean?” this work reflects on four points: the rituals that make up the rite of passage in which mother and baby are born; the cosmology in which this rite of passage is immersed; the assistance to childbirth and birth in Brazil; and the disputes of meanings in around some selected operators These operators are born from the researcher's view of the reports, at the same time they punctuated her view of the research, namely: (i) the best way to give birth, (ii) nature and culture dichotomy; (iii) choices, (iv) pain, and (v) obstetric violence.