Pregnancy starts with a literacy event : pregnancy and ante-natal care as texctually mediated social experiences.

Papen, Uta (2008) Pregnancy starts with a literacy event : pregnancy and ante-natal care as texctually mediated social experiences. Ethnography, 9 (3). pp. 377-403. ISSN 1466-1381

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Abstract

As a literacy researcher my academic attention is usually focussed on how other people use reading and writing in their everyday lives. In this article, for the first time I turn my researcher’s gaze onto myself. I present a portion of my autoethnogaphy which aimed to document my becoming a mother as a ‘textually-mediated’ experience. I discuss three aspects of this experience: (1) the role of the ‘Green Notes’, a personal maternity record, as an example of how the literacy practices of pregnancy and ante-natal care are shaped by institutional norms and procedures; (2) the significance of my own reading and writing activities in the process of ‘making sense’; and (3) the role of reading and writing in what I have called ‘difficult moments’. The paper concludes with a reflection on the potential of autoethnography for social sciences generally and literacy studies more particularly.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Ethnography
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/englishlanguageandlinguistics
Subjects:
?? autoethnography pregnancy literacy practices antenatal care pregnancy notesenglish language and linguisticscultural studiesanthropologyp philology. linguistics ??
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21109
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Deposited On:
16 Dec 2008 09:53
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Yes
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Published
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