Pregnancy and Miscarriage in Qatar

Kilshaw, Susie; Afary, Janet; Yaghoobi, Claudia

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“…In her comparisons of how culture frames the management of pregnancy loss among women in the U.K. and Qatar, Kilshaw (2020a, 2020b) locates the key difference in differing assumptions about control and agency. Used to managing their careers and life to a high degree, British women tended to plan their pregnancies, ready their bodies through nutrition, exercise, and monitoring, and from the outset invest their fetuses with personhood.…”

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“…While scholarly interest in women's health and reproduction is increasing, studies on reproductive disruptions—when the linear arc of conception, birth, and the upbringing of succeeding generations are interrupted or ruptured—remain relatively undertheorized (Inhorn 2007). Research on problematized reproduction treating pregnancy loss, miscarriages, abortions, and stillbirths as “social events” as much as biomedical phenomena are still limited (Kilshaw 2020a, 2020b). Anthropological understandings of miscarriage have considered how context and culture shape meanings, experiences, and management of pregnancy losses through interrogating understandings of bearing children and becoming mothers, the religious meanings of loss, and notions of fetal personhood (Middlemiss 2021).…”

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“…Premised on her own experience of several pregnancy losses, Layne (2003) interrogates alternate ways to theorize maternal‐fetal relations. Kilshaw (2020a, 2020b) reveals how her miscarriages inspired her comparative project on the cultural framings to understanding and reconciling oneself to pregnancy loss. Also emergent are considerations of the implications of traumatic firsthand experiences for innovative methodological approaches.…”

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Measuring Parental Involvement in Dual-Earner Qatari Families

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Pregnancy and Miscarriage in Qatar

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Heartbreaking anthropology hurts: Studying fertility rituals while struggling with infertility

Heartbreaking anthropology hurts: Studying fertility rituals while struggling with infertility

Measuring Parental Involvement in Dual-Earner Qatari Families

A Pregnant Pause: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Suspended Time

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