Research Catalog

Title

The politics of birth / Sheila Kitzinger.

Author

Kitzinger, Sheila

Publication

Edinburgh ; New York : Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, 2005.

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Details

Description

x, 235 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In The Politics of Birth Sheila Kitzinger explores ways in which we learn about birth, how we talk and feel about it, assumptions that professional caregivers may make, and the roles and skills of midwives."--Jacket.

Subject

• Social Values
• Pregnant Women > psychology
• Pregnancy > psychology
• Midwifery
• Maternal Health Services
• Delivery, Obstetric > psychology
• Childbirth
• Childbirth > Social aspects
• Obstetrics > Social aspects
• Maternal health services > Social aspects
• Midwives
• Pregnancy > Social aspects
• United Kingdom
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Giving birth -- 2. The birth place -- 3. The clock, the bed and the chair -- 4. Images of birth and breastfeeding -- 5. Breastfeeding : public health, birth and shame -- 6. Birth education : from pedagogy to politics -- 7. The language of birth -- 8. Touch and its meanings -- 9. The caesarean epidemic -- 10. Court-ordered caesareans -- 11. Birth plans -- 12. Home birth -- 13. Waterbirth -- 14. Birth dance -- 15. What's happening to midwives? -- 16. Doulas -- 17. Fathers -- 18. Children at birth -- 19. Silence is collusion : violence in pregnancy -- 20. Mothers and babies behind bars -- 21. Pregnant asylum seekers : the dispossessed -- 22. Changing our birth culture.

ISBN

0750688769

OCLC

• 60885897
• SCSB-12890670

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library