Birthing a movement : midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care /

"This is the first ethnography of American midwives and their clients and advocates. The culmination of more than a decade of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research, this project specifically interrogates the potential and pitfalls of legal and political campaigns for reprod...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cramer, Renée Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Midwives > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Midwives > United States > History.
Social movements > United States.
Childbirth > Political aspects > United States.
Sages-femmes > Droit > États-Unis.
Sages-femmes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvements sociaux > États-Unis.
LAW / General.
Childbirth > Political aspects.
Midwives.
Midwives > Legal status, laws, etc.
Social movements.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : knowing about legality and illegality in midwifery care in the United States
  • History and status of midwives in the United States
  • Modern and professional
  • Mostly happy accidents
  • Rights, rules, and regulation
  • Catching babies, and catching hell
  • Deep transformations, deep contradictions
  • Conclusion : attending to birth in sociolegal scholarship.

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