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Birth Matters

a midwife's manifesta

Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
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An edition of Birth Matters (2011)

Birth Matters

a midwife's manifesta

Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
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Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth -- which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections -- and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species. - Publisher.

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Birth Matters: a midwife's manifesta
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Table of Contents

The importance of birth and birth stories
Second-wave feminism, birth, and motherhood
Birth story : Charlotte at the farm
Sexuality and birth
A brief look at the history of midwives and medical men
Birth story : Chloe at the farm
Technology and empowerment
Birth story : Teresa at home
Gathering the power of sisterhood
What's a father-to-be to do?
Birth story : Keri at the farm
My vision for the future
Birth story : Michaela at the Northern New Mexico Birth Center
The kind of obstetrics I miss, and its great defenders
Appendices.
The mother-friendly childbirth initiative
List of resources pertinent to the midwifery model of care
Further reading/films
The Farm Midwifery Center : preliminary report of 2,844 pregnancies, 1970-2010

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
618.4/5
Library of Congress
RG661 .G375 2011

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xii, 250 p.
Dimensions
21 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24799028M
ISBN 10
1583229272
ISBN 13
9781583229279
LCCN
2011001677

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