| Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta Contributor(s): Gaskin, Ina May (Author), Difranco, Ani (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1583229272 ISBN-13: 9781583229279 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Pregnancy & Childbirth - Health & Fitness | Women's Health - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 618.45 |
| LCCN: 2011001677 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.65 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |