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Author: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
ISBN : B007FRK2DG
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Download Free Birth as an American Rite of Passage: Second Edition, With a New Preface for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever.Books with free ebook downloads available Free Birth as an American Rite of Passage: Second Edition, With a New Preface
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- Print Length: 422 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; 2 edition (December 1, 2003)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B007FRK2DG
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Free Birth as an American Rite of Passage: Second Edition, With a New Preface
The majority of obstetric procedures, from putting on a hospital gown to the birthing position itself, are unnecessary and sometimes dangerous rituals that are perpetuated by an authoritarian system in its desire to maintain control over a virtually uncontrollable process. Robbie Davis-Floyd has studied these rituals of birth; why taking the ride to L&D in the wheelchair sets up an invalid mindset in the laboring woman, and how the lithotomy position robs the woman of her birthing power, forcing her to rely on the medical professions to deliver her baby for her.
It is powerful stuff and difficult to accept, but truth sometimes is.
If you really want to know what to expect when you're expecting, read this book and Henci Goer's Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. If you'd really like to remove yourself from the technobirth machine, read Ina May Gaskin's Ina May's Guide to Childbirth and Spiritual Midwifery. If you've always thought you might want a natural birth, read Peggy O'Mara's Having a Baby, Naturally. And remember this one thing: If you really (really) want a natural, unmedicated birth, don't give birth in a hospital.
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