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Birthing a movement : midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care / Renée Ann Cramer.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781503614505
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF2915 .B578 2021
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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 reproductive autonomy"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction KF2915.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1154088563

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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 reproductive autonomy"--

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