Research Catalog

Title

Birthing justice : black women, pregnancy, and childbirth / edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte.

Publication

Boulder, CO, USA : Paradigm Publishers, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Oparah, Julia Chinyere
• Bonaparte, Alicia D.

Description

x, 234 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Maternal health services > United States
• African American women > Medical care
• Prenatal care > Social aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner : "granny midwife" 1931-1956 / Darline Turner -- Regulating childbirth : physicians and granny midwives in South Carolina / Alicia D. Bonaparte -- Between traditional knowledge and western medicine : women birthing in post-colonial Zimbabwe / Christina Mudokwenyu-Rawdon, Peggy Dube, Nester T. Moyo, and Stephen Munjanja -- An abolitionist mama speaks : on natural birth and miscarriage / Viviane Saleh-Hanna -- Mothering : a post-C-section journey / Jacinda Townsend -- Confessions of a Black pregnant dad / Syrus Marcus Ware -- Birth justice and population control / Loretta J. Ross -- Beyond silence and stigma : pregnancy and HIV for Black women in Canada / Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy -- What I carry : a story of love and loss / Iris Jacob -- Images from the safe motherhood quilt / Ina May Gaskin and Laura Gilkey -- Birthing sexual freedom and healing : a survivor mother's birth story / Biany Pérez -- Birth as battle cry : a doula's journey from home to hospital / Gina Mariela Rodríguez -- Sister midwife : nurturing and reflecting black womanhood in an urban hospital / Stephanie Etienne -- A love letter for my daughter : love as a political act / Haile Eshe Cole -- New visions in birth, intimacy, kinship, and sisterly partnerships / Shannon Gibney and Valerie Deus -- I am my hermana's keeper : reclaiming Afro-indigenous ancestral wisdom as a doula / Griselda Rodriguez -- The first cut Is the deepest : a mother/daughter conversation about birth, justice, healing, and love / Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Unexpected allies : obstetrician activism, VBACs, and the birth justice movement / Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah -- Birthing freedom : Black American midwifery and liberation struggles / Ruth Hays -- Becoming an outsider-within : Jennie Joseph and Florida midwifery / Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph -- Beyond shackling : prisons, pregnancy, and birth justice / Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah.

Call Number

Sc E 15-1207

ISBN

• 9781612058368
• 1612058361
• 9781612058375
• 161205837X
• 9781612059167 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781612058382 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014049717

OCLC

891123243

Title

Birthing justice : black women, pregnancy, and childbirth / edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte.

Publisher

Boulder, CO, USA : Paradigm Publishers, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Oparah, Julia Chinyere, editor.

Bonaparte, Alicia D., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-1207