Cramer, Renée Ann, <br/><br/>
Birthing a movement :  midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care / 
Renée Ann Cramer. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781503614505 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020021113 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Midwives--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.<br/>Midwives--History.--United States<br/>Social movements--United States.<br/>Childbirth--Political aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF2915  / .B578 2021