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A Bun in the Oven - How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (Hardcover)
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A Bun in the Oven - How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization (Hardcover)
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There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people
dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is
the first comparison of these two social movements. The food
movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet
of most Americans. And while there's talk of improving the
childbirth experience, most births happen in large hospitals, about
a third result in C-sections, and the US does not fare well in
infant or maternal outcomes. In A Bun in the Oven Barbara Katz
Rothman traces the food and the birth movements through three major
phases over the course of the 20th century in the United States:
from the early 20th century era of scientific management; through
to the consumerism of Post World War II with its 'turn to the
French' in making things gracious; to the late 20th century
counter-culture midwives and counter-cuisine cooks. The book
explores the tension throughout all of these eras between the
industrial demands of mass-management and profit-making, and the
social movements-composed largely of women coming together from
very different feminist sensibilities-which are working to expose
the harmful consequences of industrialization, and make birth and
food both meaningful and healthy. Katz Rothman, an internationally
recognized sociologist named 'midwife to the movement' by the
Midwives Alliance of North America, turns her attention to the
lessons to be learned from the food movement, and the parallel
forces shaping both of these consumer-based social movements. In
both movements, issues of the natural, the authentic, and the
importance of 'meaningful' and 'personal' experiences get balanced
against discussions of what is sensible, convenient and safe. And
both movements operate in a context of commercial and corporate
interests, which places profit and efficiency above individual
experiences and outcomes. A Bun in the Oven brings new insight into
the relationship between our most intimate, personal experiences,
the industries that control them, and the social movements that
resist the industrialization of life and seek to birth change.
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