Ina May Gaskin: Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta
Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta
Buch
- Solo-Instrument: Ani Difranco
- Seven Stories Press, 03/2011
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781583229279
- Bestellnummer: 11966328
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Gewicht: 311 g
- Maße: 212 x 141 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.3.2011
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.