Birthing a movement : midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care / Renée Ann Cramer.
| Author/creator | Cramer, Renée Ann author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021] |
| Description | xii, 274 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 : legitimating, marketing, and reimagining midwives -- Mostly happy accidents : successfully mobilizing for legal status -- Rights, rules, and regulation -- Catching babies, and catching hell : constitutive interactions in the limits and shadow of the law -- Deep transformations, deep contradictions : changing birth culture one movie, one picnic, one ... tiny little epistemological shift at a time -- Conclusion : attending to birth in sociolegal scholarship : embodied, interdisciplinary, and authoritative knowledge. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Cramer, ReneĢe Ann. Birthing a movement. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. 9781503614505 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020021112 |
| ISBN | 9781503609839 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1503609839 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781503614499 paperback |
| ISBN | 1503614492 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |