Giving Birth To A Subject

Biljana Stanković, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She teaches courses on qualitative methodology, cultural-historical psychology and critical psychology, at different academic levels. As a researcher, she employs a range of qualitative approaches to topics at the intersection of health psychology, social psychology, and psychology of women, while seeking to integrate theoretical perspectives from cultural-historical psychology, phenomenology, and science and technology studies. Her research interests include female embodiment and reproductive experiences, institutional aspects of medical care, experiences of people living with severe mental illness, and social trauma and historical narratives.

• Chapter I: Introduction.- Chapter II: Situated subjects – cultural-historical contextualisation of transition into motherhood.- Chapter III: Embodied subjects – phenomenological reconstruction of the process of becoming a mother.- Chapter IV: Distributed subjects – losing and reclaiming maternal agency under the alienating conditions of local institutional practice.- Chapter V: Conclusion.