Essays about: "baby shower"

Found 1 essay containing the words baby shower.

  1. 1. The Ritual Construction of Fetal Personhood : A Voyage through the Gendering of the Unborn in Peruvian Baby Showers

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Genusvetenskap

    Author : Cecilia Byström; [2015]
    Keywords : baby shower; rituals; rite of passage; doing gender; fetal personhood; Peru; the Andes; Cusco; baby shower; ritualer; rite of passage; doing gender; fetal personhood; Peru; Anderna; Cusco;

    Abstract : The purpose of this research is to analyse how gender is ‘done’, represented and reproduced in a Peruvian baby shower ritual. The study is situated geographically in the urban Andean setting of Cusco, and theoretically, in a feminist framework combining an ethnomethodological ‘doing gender’ perspective, anchored in social interactions, with a linguistic performativity approach, as formulated by Judith Butler. READ MORE