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Birthing a movement : midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care / Renée Ann Cramer.

By: Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]Description: xii, 274 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1503609839
  • 1503614492
  • 9781503609839
  • 9781503614499
Other title:
  • Midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Birthing a movement.LOC classification:
  • KF2915 .M5 C73 2021
Contents:
Introduction: Knowing About Legality and Illegality in Midwifery Care in the United States -- 1. History and Status of Midwives in the United States -- 2. Modern and Professional: Legitimating, Marketing, and Reimagining Midwives -- 3. Mostly Happy Accidents: Successfully Mobilizing for Legal Status -- 4. Rights, Rules, and Regulation -- 5. Catching Babies and Catching Hell: Constitutive Interactions in the Limits and Shadow of the Law -- 6. Deep Transformations, Deep Contradictions: Changing Birth Culture One Movie, One Picnic, One<3.>Tiny Little Epistemological Shift at a Time -- Conclusion: Attending to Birth in Sociolegal Scholarship: Embodied, Interdisciplinary, and Authoritative Knowledge.
Summary: "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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Knowing About Legality and Illegality in Midwifery Care in the United States -- 1. History and Status of Midwives in the United States -- 2. Modern and Professional: Legitimating, Marketing, and Reimagining Midwives -- 3. Mostly Happy Accidents: Successfully Mobilizing for Legal Status -- 4. Rights, Rules, and Regulation -- 5. Catching Babies and Catching Hell: Constitutive Interactions in the Limits and Shadow of the Law -- 6. Deep Transformations, Deep Contradictions: Changing Birth Culture One Movie, One Picnic, One<3.>Tiny Little Epistemological Shift at a Time -- Conclusion: Attending to Birth in Sociolegal Scholarship: Embodied, Interdisciplinary, and Authoritative Knowledge.

"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

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