La Couvade, une Porte sur Notre Humanité
Roberte LaporaL
Chercheuse Autrice Musicothérapeute Formatrice
Hello !
Speaker, Author, Lecturer, Researcher, Trainer, Consultant in CSR well-being and reconciliation of private/professional life My interventions concern the couvade or the ritual of the couvade, perinatality, parenthood, gender and what I call the 1st Myth
Roberte LaporaL
I became a music therapist by defending a thesis whose theme was the accompaniment of future parents during pregnancy. That's where I discovered the couvade, the ritual of the couvade and a whole world that turned my life upside down forever.
It is this work that I wish to share with you because it comes to shake up social constructions that have always questioned me:
What is a father?
Can a man be a tender father?
Why don't women have the same social position as men?
Where does the gender distribution of tasks come from?
This is how I found leads to these questions starting from the couvade, this phenomenon observed in future fathers.
The couvade led me to the ritual of the couvade which then made me discover that this ritual initially took place at the heart of non-binary societies, at the heart of a social and spiritual organization that showed more "humanity " than ours.
I invite you in turn to share my astonishment and also a form of hope for a slightly more egalitarian society.
MY BOOKS
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The book returns and completes the research on the couvade, the ritual of the couvade while revealing the organization of a world very far from the one we know or imagined. Gender, the link to nature are presented at the heart of a myth hitherto unknown and which disappeared with the emergence of patriarchy.
The ritual of the couvade or the volatility of gender
Publication expected in 2023
This work comes to present to the sight of all and all a father that our Western and industrialized societies have chosen to ignore. The severe father being privileged to the tender father. And yet, the future father, like the future mother, experiences such an intense biological and psychic upheaval that the family cartography can be modified. It's time to realize that the time of pregnancy is a period of life with underestimated challenges. The arrival of a baby is a real challenge for many parents than it seems.
The Couvade or the upset father, 1001 Bébés Eres 2015
My first book which brought together, a little too quickly, the first elements of my research. In reality, I mainly protected the latter but this book is the beginning of my work.
La Couvade, the first rite, the last taboo, the great misunderstanding, Les Voix d'Ella, 2011
The ritual of the couvade or the volatility of gender
And yes, I'm still re-reading my latest book. Indeed, a friend read it, and made sure to put the whole book in inclusive writing. a big thank you to HER. So a delayed publication but a big thank you to all those who have already purchased it.
