‘Holistic Mothers’ or ‘Bad Mothers’?: Challenging Biomedical Models of the Body in Portugal

This paper is based on early fieldwork findings on ‘holistic mothering’ in contemporary Portugal. I use holistic mothering as an umbrella term to cover different mothering choices, which are rooted in the assumption that pregnancy, childbirth and early childhood are important spiritual occasions for...

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Main Author: Fedele, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2016]
In: Religion & gender
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-111
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Portugal / Motherhood / Birth / Spirituality / Holism / Controversy
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
KBH Iberian Peninsula
NBE Anthropology
NCH Medical ethics
Further subjects:B Biomedicine
B Holistic Mothering
B Homebirth
B Goddess Spirituality
B Portugal
B Cam
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