Abstract
This paper analyses the way that the idea of control of body and life gets in the discourse about the decision on childbirth from the speech of women who underwent cesarean surgery in private hospitals in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The theoretical-methodological approach is the analysis of discursive practices and the production of meanings. Pain, body integrity, risk control, birth aesthetics and times (social and reproductive) are triggered as elements contained in the control idea that surrounds cesarean delivery as a birth practice.This control would be exercised in interaction networks among women, family, professional, medical and non-medical technological objects, and institutions.
Keywords:
Parturition; Cesarean Section; Control Pain; Body