Genre, race et classe en éducation pour la santé périnatale

Abstract

Based on a sociological study of perinatal health education programmes for foreign pregnant women in France, this article examines the ways in which the educational discourse of health professionals reproduces gender, race and class domination. During the group sessions, the health workers educate the participants in good maternal practices in using a modelization of cultural alterisation, referring the foreign women to a doubly archaic culture of origin : from the medical point of view and from the point of view of gender equality. These processes of cultural alterisation help to reinforce relations of gender, race and class domination, while at the same time continuing the history of health education for working-class and racialised mothers and mothers-to-be.

Keywords

• gender
• migration
• intersectionality
• health education
• perinatal health education
• race