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V. Problem Presentation and Advice-giving on a Home Birth Helpline

A Feminist Conversation Analytic Study

Rebecca Shaw

Department of Sport, Culture and the Arts, University of Strathclyde, 76 Southbrae Drive, Glasgow, Scotland, rebecca.shaw{at}strath.ac.uk

Celia Kitzinger

Department of Sociology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK, cck1{at}york.ac.uk

The rate of home births in the UK is very low (around 2%) and many women who would like to give birth at home find it impossible to get midwifery cover or are advised of medical contraindications. The Home Birth Helpline offers support and expertise for women in this situation. Based on the analysis of 80 recorded calls, this article uses conversation analysis (CA) to explore how callers present their reason for calling the helpline, and what this shows about the culturally shared medicalized culture of birth. This research is an example of feminist CA in that it contributes both to the study of childbirth as a key women's health issue and to the study of helpline interaction from a conversation analytic perspective

Key Words: childbirth • conversation analysis • feminism

Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 203-213 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0959353507076553
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Book review: EMANUEL A. SCHEGLOFF, Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis, Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Xvi + 300 pp
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