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Laboring On - Birth in Transition in the United States (Hardcover)
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Laboring On - Birth in Transition in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives on Gender
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Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of cesarean sections and
epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in
transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization -- best
seen in a cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent -- and a
rhetoric of women's "choices" and "the natural," women and their
midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses labor on. "Laboring On"
offers the voices of all of these practitioners, all women trying
to help women, as they struggle with this increasingly split vision
of birth.
Updating Barbara Katz Rothman's now-classic" In Labor," the first
feminist sociological analysis of birth in the United States,
"Laboring On" gives a comprehensive picture of the ever-changing
American birth practices and often conflicting visions of birth
practitioners. The authors deftly weave compelling accounts of
birth work, by midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses, into
the larger sociohistorical context of health care practices and
activism and offer provocative arguments about the current state of
affairs and the future of birth in America.
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