Making Sure She Eats Right: Absent-Presence, Articulation, and Surveillance-Care in Senegalese Men's Maternal Support.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2423166

Richard Powis

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Abstract

In Senegal, where pregnancy is "women's business," men's roles in prenatal and postpartum care are mediated by gendered expectations of what expectant fathers are allowed to know and do. Expectant fathers' roles map onto masculine expectations of the authoritative, sovereign head-of-household. Using the state-authored Handbook of Mother and Child Health, I argue that state surveillance is refracted through preexisting masculine prenatal care roles, and that men willingly articulate themselves to the role of the surveillance state by relying on the Handbook as a guide for how to watch their pregnant partners and make sure they are adhering to its guidance.

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确保她吃得正确：塞内加尔男性对母亲的支持中的缺席、表达和监控。

在塞内加尔，怀孕是 "女人的事"，男性在产前和产后护理中的角色受到性别期望的影响，即准爸爸可以知道什么和做什么。准爸爸的角色映射了男性对有权威、有主权的一家之主的期望。通过使用国家编写的《母婴健康手册》，我认为，国家的监控是通过预先存在的男性产前护理角色折射出来的，男性通过将《手册》作为如何观察其怀孕伴侣的指南，并确保他们遵守其指导，从而心甘情愿地将自己表述为监控国家的角色。

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