The Silent Birth: A Feminist Perspective
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Journal Article The Silent Birth: A Feminist Perspective Get access Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, MSW Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, MSW assistant professor Department of Social Work, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 37100, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100; e-mail: Joanne.cacciatore@asu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 91–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/54.1.91 Published: 01 January 2009 Article history Received: 18 April 2008 Revision received: 19 June 2008 Accepted: 11 July 2008 Published: 01 January 2009
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Social stigma associated with stillbirth makes it an isolating event, leaving mothers more dependent on their own psychological and emotional resources and on those who care for them.
“Owing to the social stigma associated with stillbirth,7 it is an isolating event leaving mothers more dependent on their own psychological and emotional resources and on those that care for them.3”
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“This means working toward an aware, but not presumptive, respect-based intervention that includes exploring options with the family, being certain not to impose external values or beliefs about a baby’s death (Cacciatore, 2009b).”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationThe psychological, social, and economic impact of stillbirth on families
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“Specifically, when mothers choose to hold their newborns after they have died, researchers and providers who challenge this choice, through data collection or in hospital care [36], are enacting a paternalistic, non-”
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“These responses can be interpreted as a public denial of their babies’ identities and the imposition of silence on women who come to inhabit a restricted world where grieving is cut short (Cacciatore, 2009; Kelley & Trinidad, 2011; Murphy & Thomas, 2013).”
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“Although some controversy exists over benefits, studies in HIC demonstrate that in the context of compassionate care, seeing and holding stillborn babies was associated with less subsequent psychological distress and that few women who chose to see their baby regretted doing so [25].”
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“Stillbirth has enormous personal impact and is the most common cause of infant death (Cacciatore 2007; Cacciatore 2009) yet remains one of the least understood areas of childbirth.”
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“Social workers could be instrumental in “helping women find their voices after the death of a baby” (Cacciatore, 2009, p. 93), which is important to normalizing their grief experience and lessening the burden of disenfranchised grief (Price, 2008).”
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“Women pregnant after loss describe feeling like a failure because their body did not produce a healthy baby (Frøen et al., 2011) – and also question their ability to carry and birth a healthy living child in the subsequent pregnancy (Cacciatore, 2009; DeFrain, 1986).”
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“…the research theme and its proponents, where the community includes the researcher as well, which is not uncommon in topical feminist research (Cacciatore, 2009; Letherby, 2009; Komaromy, 2016; Komaromy et al, 2016; Earle et al, 2009; Layne, 1997 2003, 2009; Rowling, 2009; Radomska et al,…”
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“However, in many instances, her partner is also affected (Cacciatore, 2009).”
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“Conversely, social support is widely recognised as a key protective factor for mental health following loss (Cacciatore et al., 2009).”
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“Despite the prevalence of such loss, women report feeling isolated through such experiences (Cacciatore, 2009; St John, Cooke, & Goopy, 2006).”
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- Authors
- Cacciatore, J.
- Affiliations
- Arizona State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cacciatore, J.
- ORCID
- Cacciatore, J.
- Venue
- Social Work
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 91-95
- ISSN
- 0037-8046 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-6846
- OpenAlex
- W1963756875
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Work (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Arizona State University Library Digital Repository (Arizona State University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Keywords
- feminism, childbirth, feminist perspectives
- MeSH terms
- Female, Humans, Public Policy, Social Work, United States, Feminism, Stillbirth
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