Abstract

MONTERO C, Leida C.. BIRTH AND BIRTH IN MODERNITY . A  GENDER PERSPECTIVE FROM OBSTETRIC NURSING . Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2017, vol.15, n.1, pp.42-52. ISSN 1690-3293.

The study is part of the research lines on sexual and reproductive health, focusing on the reproductive processes of women: labor and childbirth, events that obstetrics - in the hands of the hegemonic biomedical model - has expropriated from women's bodies. In order to clarify this fact, we need to unveil the collective imaginary about labor and childbirth, constructed by nurses through their hospital praxis. We frame the theoretical view from feminism as a theory and argumentative epistemology from the patriarchal conception of the world around the woman. We appropriate the category of gender as analytical methodology following the qualitative approach. The research group was composed of five nurses with a Master in Nursing Science, over 5 years of professional experience in the labor room at the "Dr. José María Carabaño Tosta" I.V.S.S. (Venezuelan Institute of Social Security - Government health care) in Maracay City/Aragua state.The representativeness of the research was guaranteed by the quality of the information obtained through the saturation point of knowledge. The construction of the analysis was enriched by the testimonies collected through the focused interviews. The construction of the analysis was done through the categorization of critical events, with which we showed the reality of the medicalized, technocratized and pathologizing treatment given to women in the labor rooms as a result of technocratic training received by nurses in hegemonic biomedical model, conceptualizing women as purely reproductive beings.

Keywords : childbirth-birth; technocratic model; obstetric nursing; gender perspective.

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