Waltzing Matilda
2011; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 41; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/0891241611429302
ISSN1552-5414
Autores Tópico(s)Migration, Health and Trauma
ResumoIn this autoethnographic essay, I consider the experience of my daughter Matilda’s stillbirth. I explore stillbirth, grief, tactile contact with death, and how all of these demonstrate the strictures and ruptures of masculinity in Western cultures. I counterpose these realities against the political, economic, and medical discourses of stillbirth as a means of exploring how social structures mediate and complicate parents’ experiences of their children’s deaths. Fathers’ experiences form the core of my analysis, for both the scientific literature and cultural texts about grief and perinatal death often discursively elide these experiences.
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