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Exploring the aesthetic experiences of childbirth through the 'fleshy' moments of pleasure and pain

Suvi Satama

dc.contributor.authorSuvi Satama
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-28T12:28:55Z
dc.date.available2022-10-28T12:28:55Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/159810
dc.description.abstract<p></p><p> </p><p> This paper inquiries into the aesthetic experiences of childbirth; a "fleshy becoming" that disrupts disembodied and affectless images of organization. In this paper, I build on recent literature on organizational aesthetics and aesthetic experiences (e.g. Koivunen and Wennes 2011; Ropo and Sauer, 2008; Strati 1992; Taylor 2002; Warren 2008) in order to explore the versatile descriptions of navigating controversial expectations, conflicting ideals, fears, and ultimate joy and happiness attached to the moment of childbirth. </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Surprisingly, the unique and multifaceted phenomenon of childbirth has remained a neglected aspect in social and organization studies despite of few exemplars (Chadwick and Foster 2012; Gatrell 2013; Malacrida and Boulton 2014; 2012; Warren and Brewis 2004). Drawing on eight personal stories of women who have recently become mothers and given birth for the first time, I discuss feelings of immerse excitement, passion, anxiety, extreme suffering and struggle inherently present on a journey of embodied transformation towards becoming mothers. In particular, I want to reflexively question and discuss the dominantly negative, even destructive assumptions about childbirth that flourish in the literature (e.g. Hager 2011). Embodying the simultaneous feelings of extreme joy and pain, I critically discuss how the women manage (or not) to balance between these controversial aesthetic experiences during and after the childbirth. 2 </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Taken together, I argue for more versatile approaches to aesthetic experiences ‘in all their complexity, materiality and ambiguity’ (Pullen and Rhodes 2015, 164). Besides bringing insights into discussions of the aesthetic, embodied and affective sides of contemporary organizations, this paper argues for deeper understandings of aesthetic experiences in organization studies. </p><p><br></p>
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleExploring the aesthetic experiences of childbirth through the 'fleshy' moments of pleasure and pain
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www2.le.ac.uk/conference/rome2017/AbstractbookletFINAL.pdf/view
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2021042718077
dc.contributor.organizationfi=johtaminen ja organisointi|en=Management and Organisation|
dc.contributor.organization-code2608301
dc.converis.publication-id28648299
dc.converis.urlhttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/28648299
dc.okm.affiliatedauthorSatama, Suvi
dc.okm.discipline5141 Sosiologiafi_FI
dc.okm.discipline512 Liiketaloustiedefi_FI
dc.okm.discipline5141 Sociologyen_GB
dc.okm.discipline512 Business and managementen_GB
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationnot an international co-publication
dc.okm.internationalityInternational publication
dc.okm.typeO2 Other
dc.relation.conferenceStanding Conference on Organizational Symbolism
dc.year.issued2017


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