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Zusatztext "A truly original and innovative book-and an absolute necessity in the current field of research on reproduction."-Christa Craven! College of Wooster! author of Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement."With its commitment to placing black women at the center of the conversation and scholarship about their own lives and the value it places on agency! activism! and putting scholarship to work for the purpose of social change! Birthing Justice makes an important and much-needed contribution to the small but growing number of books examining reproductive justice. This anthology of black women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth is long overdue."-Jeanne Flavin! Fordham University! author of Our Bodies! Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America. Informationen zum Autor Julia Chinyere Oparah is Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at Mills College and a founding member of Black Women Birthing Justice. She is co-editor of Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism and Social Change and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption Alicia D. Bonaparte is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College and a medical sociologist with a specialization in reproductive health and health disparities. She is currently working on a book on the lives of granny midwives in South Carolina. Klappentext Originally published: Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2015. Zusammenfassung Originally published: Boulder: Paradigm Publishers! 2015. Inhaltsverzeichnis I Birthing Histories 1 Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner: "Granny Midwife," 1931–1956 Darline Turner 2 Regulating Childbirth: Physicians and Granny Midwives in South Carolina Alicia D. Bonaparte 3 Between Traditional Knowledge and Western Medicine: Women Birthing in Postcolonial Zimbabwe Christina Mudokwenyu-Rawdon, Peggy Dube, Nester T. Moyo, and Stephen Munjanja II Beyond Medical versus Natural: Redefining Birth Injustice 4 An Abolitionist Mama Speaks: On Natural Birth and Miscarriage Viviane Saleh-Hanna 5 Mothering: A Post-C-Section Journey Jacinda Townsend 6 Confessions of a Black Pregnant Dad Syrus Marcus Ware 7 Birth Justice and Population Control Loretta J. Ross 8 Beyond Silence and Stigma: Pregnancy and HIV for Black Women in Canada Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy iv Contents 9 What I Carry: A Story of Love and Loss Iris Jacob 10 Images from the Safe Motherhood Quilt Ina May Gaskin and Laura Gilkey III Changing Lives, One Birth at a Time 11 Birthing Sexual Freedom and Healing: A Survivor Mother’s Birth Story Biany Pérez 12 Birth as Battle Cry: A Doula’s Journey from Home to Hospital Gina Mariela Rodríguez 13 Sister Midwife: Nurturing and Reflecting Black Womanhood in an Urban Hospital Stephanie Etienne 14 A Love Letter to My Daughter: Love as a Political Act Haile Eshe Cole 15 New Visions in Birth, Intimacy, Kinship, and Sisterly Partnerships Shannon Gibney and Valerie Deus 16 I Am My Hermana ’s Keeper: Reclaiming Afro-Indigenous Ancestral Wisdom as a Doula Griselda Rodriguez 17 The First Cut Is the Deepest: A Mother-Daughter Conversation about Birth, Justice, Healing, and Love Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs IV Taking Back Our Power: Organizing for Birth Justice 18 Unexpected Allies: Obstetrician Activism, VBACs, and the Birth Justice Movement Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah 19 Birthing Freedom: Black American Midwifery and Liberation Struggles Ruth Hays 20 Becoming an Outsider-Within: Jennie Joseph’s Activism in Florida Midwifery Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph 21 Beyond S...
