Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 03/22/2011
ISBN: 9781583229279
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Choice 08/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 268