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Accepted Paper:
Holistic therapies: a way to re-define gender norms?
Clara Lemonnier
Paper short abstract:
Supported by a case study on reproductive health and the analysis of the actors' discourses in holistic therapies, my presentation will identify and try to understand the role of new spiritualities as a way to re-define gender norms.
Paper long abstract:
My PhD research in progress deals with the use of holistic medicines by women. I also take part in a research program focuses on inequalities of reproductive health access on the rural French region called Médoc (team project 2010-2013, financed by INSERM-IRESP).
New holistic therapies - such as magnetic, energetic, relaxation therapies - consider the re-connection between body and mental as a healing power. This approach sometimes involves a spiritual quest built as a 'bricolage', including Judeo-Christian or esoteric beliefs and chosen elements of oriental philosophies or shamanic traditions. It goes along with the emergence of new individual and social identities. These identities appear to be a way to cope with anxiety.
Supported by a case study on reproductive health and the analysis of the actors' discourses, my presentation will identify and try to understand the role of new spiritualities as a way to re-define gender norms.