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The role of midwives as participants and precursors of social change that would incorporate women as professionals to employment has been one of the notes made manifest in the doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Murcia by Natalia Emilia Rodríguez Portilla.
The research, which examines the activities of midwives between 1940 and 1977, says that they were able to combine their activities in the public sphere with the role traditionally assigned to mothers and wives women.
"As a trained and skilled professionals doctoral- thesis says, claimed its autonomy and workspace with women and their families."
The study also says that institutions which provided services were a meeting place and claim for midwifery community itself, where they joined and fought to achieve improvements.
The thesis presents, on the other hand, delivery care in hospitals away from conception as a physiological process, "and began to perpetuate various practices routinely in their work."
The work, which has obtained excellent cum laude, was led by professors at the University of Murcia Maria Emilia Martinez and Maria Angeles Roche Brown Molina.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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