Title

Implementing Barthes' Analysis Procedure: The Case of Bereaved Parents as a result of Feticide

Format Type

Plenary

Format Type

Paper

Start Date

12-1-2021 4:20 PM

End Date

12-1-2021 4:40 PM

Abstract

Bereaved parents who have undergone the feticide procedure due to fetus abnormality are reluctant to participate in a joint research interview and were therefore interviewed separately. Barthes’ intertextuality approach was used to examine these texts in order to arrive at an interpretive understanding of this phenomenon. Barthes' analysis will be the center of this presentation.

Barthes' analysis invites the reader to read the text by means of five codes in order to reinterpret the story. The codes ask the reader to examine the personal experiences of the plot’s heroes, as well as the social and cultural discourses within which the plot unfolds. This reading makes it possible to examine the manner in which the individual is created and acts as a subject. The five codes generate a new text, which makes it possible to tell a multi-voiced and multi-layered story with multiple meanings. The "new text" allowed us to recognize that socially constructed gender roles and expectations ("this is what men/women are expected to do" was a common statement in the interviews), as well as medical-biological and economic constructs, shape the parents' perceptions and actions. The results further demonstrate that both men and women actively try to behave based on the similarities with their partner and perceive any indication of differences as a threat. The researchers' proposal to take part in a joint interview was perceived as a danger to the agreed-upon socially constructed views informants had adopted when feticide was discussed and when it was performed.

Keywords

Intertextuality, Israel, Interpretive research

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Implementing Barthes' Analysis Procedure: The Case of Bereaved Parents as a result of Feticide

Bereaved parents who have undergone the feticide procedure due to fetus abnormality are reluctant to participate in a joint research interview and were therefore interviewed separately. Barthes’ intertextuality approach was used to examine these texts in order to arrive at an interpretive understanding of this phenomenon. Barthes' analysis will be the center of this presentation.

Barthes' analysis invites the reader to read the text by means of five codes in order to reinterpret the story. The codes ask the reader to examine the personal experiences of the plot’s heroes, as well as the social and cultural discourses within which the plot unfolds. This reading makes it possible to examine the manner in which the individual is created and acts as a subject. The five codes generate a new text, which makes it possible to tell a multi-voiced and multi-layered story with multiple meanings. The "new text" allowed us to recognize that socially constructed gender roles and expectations ("this is what men/women are expected to do" was a common statement in the interviews), as well as medical-biological and economic constructs, shape the parents' perceptions and actions. The results further demonstrate that both men and women actively try to behave based on the similarities with their partner and perceive any indication of differences as a threat. The researchers' proposal to take part in a joint interview was perceived as a danger to the agreed-upon socially constructed views informants had adopted when feticide was discussed and when it was performed.