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Abstract

In the UK, Black, South Asian and other racially and ethnically minoritised women often report poorer experiences and mistrust in reproductive and maternity health care services. Anthropological ethnographies capturing lives of ethnic minority pregnant women and mothers in the UK are limited. In an exploration of Black feminist methodology, we reflect on the adoption of the creative, arts-based methods of body mapping within the context of a nested ethnography as part of the multinational group care implementation study, Group Care in the First 1000 Days (GC_1000). Weaving together narratives of researcher reflexivity, fieldnotes, interviews and women's body map compositions, we explore with depth women's experiences of pregnancy, birth and motherhood in the context of group care.

Publication Type:	Article
Publisher Keywords:	Group care, Centering Pregnancy, ethnography, black feminism, body mapping
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Departments:	School of Health & Medical Sciences School of Health & Medical Sciences > Department of Nursing & Midwifery
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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