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Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States (Perspectives on Gender) - Softcover

Book 16 of 27: Perspectives on Gender

Wendy Simonds; Barbara Katz Rothman; Bari Meltzer Norman

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9780415946636: Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States (Perspectives on Gender)
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ISBN 10: 0415946638 ISBN 13: 9780415946636
Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Wendy Simonds is Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University. She is author of Abortion at Work and Women and Self-Help Culture; and co-author with Barbara Katz Rothman of Centuries of Solace.

Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, is author of many works on motherhood-related issues, including In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace; The Tentative Pregnancy; Recreating Motherhood; The Book of Life, and Weaving a Family.

Bari Meltzer Norman received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. in sociology, magna cum laude, from Barnard College. She lives in Miami.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415946638
ISBN 13 
9780415946636
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
392
Rating
  • 4.48 out of 5 stars
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