Publication

2011 - Seven Stories Press

Language

English

Word Count

69,000 words, Guess

Page Count

276 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781583229279
  • Open LibraryOL24655066M

Classifications

  • LCCRG661 .G375 2011
  • LCCRG661.G375 2011

Description

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth--which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections--and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

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Other Editions

  • Birth MattersSeven Stories Press2011-01-01

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