Proměna intimity: příklad doprovázejících osob












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            * Bartáková Petra
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            The Transformation of Intimacy: The Case of Birth Partners


            Abstrakt
            This article focuses on the transformation of intimacy, in particular on the experiences o

            mothers who gave birth with the support of professional and non-professional birth partner
            area, all births in the last century have shifted from the domestic environment, full of v
            practices, to the institutional environment of maternity hospitals. In this sense, the lab

            separated from related persons. During the 1970s, obstetric care changed under the influen
            commercialisation and individualisation of obstetric care. Maternity hospitals started to 

            public and to also organise visits in delivery rooms, as well as in post-natal rooms, and 
            presence of accompanying persons at the delivery. In the Czech environment, similar change
            appeared after 1989. Relationships between clients (parents) and professional accompanying

            independent midwives) can involve contemporary practices of intimacy such as self-disclosu
            contact, and practical care. This “new” phenomenon of birth partners blurs the boundaries 
            intimate relationship and a commercial transaction. My work primarily builds upon social s

            on the transformation of intimacy in modernity and human reproduction, in particular, the 
            foundations of the anthropology and the sociology of childbirth. The goal is to elucidate 
            the transformation of intimacy, which are characteristic of temporary intimacy, through an

            semi-structured and narrative interviews given by birth partners and mothers who had a bir

            Klíčová slova

            childbirth; birth partners; intimacy; transformation of intimacy; temporary intimacy; mate

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