Birth scenes in the context of COVID-19: narratives of women and professionals in a municipality in the sertão alagoano
birth scenes, COVID-19, autoethnography.
We seek to understand the meanings about the birth scenes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on the narratives of the subjects who participate in these scenes; both women who gave birth and professionals who work in obstetric care, linked to a municipality located in the hinterland of Alagoas. Anchored in an autoethnographic methodological proposal, I compose, in dialogue with these narratives, mine: as a woman who gave birth and as a birth doula; narratives of another space and time, prior to the pandemic, but also about birth scenes, about giving birth and being with someone who stops. We will take these narratives as material to analyze the meanings, tensions and contradictions that permeate the birth scene in the pandemic context, understanding that they are composed of different actors, situated in a specific historical, social, economic and cultural context and that the bodies that make them up they are also situated by markers of race, class and gender. We take social constructionism as a theoretical-methodological framework, in dialogue with the feminist gender perspective.