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Language
English (en)
Date of Award
5-7-2013
Author's Department
International and Area Studies
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Restricted/Unrestricted
Restricted
Abstract
The embodied experience of childbirth is both individually unique as well as culturally specific. A cultural phenomenology of childbirth provides access into the embodied experience of woman as potentially transcendent of bodily boundaries-of internality and externality, of body and self, of self and other. This paper explores Western philosophical notions of human experience. Beginning with Cartesian Dualism, I proceed to collapse this concept of our lived experience as mind separate from body through discussions of phenomenology and embodiment theory that propose a notion of lived experience as a thinking and feeling body open to the world. This philosophical and theoretical framework applied to childbirth ultimately reveals the social and shared reality of lived experience. ----- Page 3 -----
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/1m8m-8242
Mentor
Carolyn Sargent
Additional Advisors
Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Recommended Citation
Marcus, Pia Gustava, "Being-in-the- World:
Accessing Female Embodiment
Through a Cultural Phenomenology of Childbirth" (2013). Senior Honors Papers / Undergraduate Theses. 162.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/1m8m-8242
Comments
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