Further Hierarchies of Loss: Tracking Relationality in Pregnancy Loss Experiences

AL Middlemiss, S Kilshaw

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Abstract

<jats:p> The article extends Robson and Walter’s concept of hierarchies of loss by describing further factors which afford differential social legitimacy to death-related losses. Drawing on our separate research with women in England who have experienced pre-viability pregnancy loss through different types of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly, we note that closeness of relationship to the object of loss does hierarchise pregnancy loss. However, other relational elements are also implicated, including ontological positions on what it was which was lost, in relation to other individually and socially experienced losses. Hierarchies are both imposed and agentially used by those who are implicated. This wider analysis extends the concept of hierarchies of loss so it can include experiences which do and do not involve grief and bereavement, and experiences of social recognition alongside those where loss is disenfranchised, marginalised, or ungrievable. </jats:p>
Original languageEnglish
Article number003022282311822
JournalOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
Volume0
Issue number0
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 7 Jun 2023

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