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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2018.9.9.421

Phenomenological Study about the Converging Experience of Women's Gender Role after Childbirth  

Lee, Suzy (IACF, Chung-Ang University)
Ki, Chaerin (School of Nursing, Catholic University)
Shin, Gisoo (Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.9, no.9, 2018 , pp. 421-430 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is a qualitative study using phenomenological methods that focus on the meaning of what individuals experience to understand the meaning of the gender role of women after childbirth. The participants of this study are 17 women who gave a birth from 8 weeks of the postpartum period to a year after the birth. Seven categories were derived from the results of analyzing the meaning of the gender roles of participants, and the seven categories are confirmed to be body changes and pain, just making me feel down, the difference between expectation and reality, isolation from husband and social network, thinking about my mother as a woman, the pain of body and mind sublimates, and convergence/dissociation between femininity and motherhood. This study is meaningful in that the results of this study provided information that would have a broader understanding of women's gender role after giving birth.
Keywords
Convergence; Motherhood; Gender identity; Childbirth; Femininity; Phenomenological study;
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