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Birth matters : a midwife's manifesto / Ina May Gaskin ; foreword by Ani DiFranco.

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781583229279
ISBN: 1583229272
Physical Description: xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: Seven Stories Press First edition
Publisher: New York, New York : Seven Stories Press, [2011]
Copyright: ©2011

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references, videography (pages 233-234) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The importance of birth and birth stories -- Second-wave feminism, birth, and motherhood -- Sexuality and birth -- A brief look at the history of midwives and medical men -- Technology and empowerment -- Gathering the power of sisterhood -- What's a father-to-be to do? -- My vision for the future -- The kind of obstetrics I miss, and its great defenders.