Blessed Events - Religion and Home Birth in America

About the author

Pamela E. Klassen is Assistant Professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Going by the Moon and the Stars: Stories of Two Russian Mennonite Women.

Summary

Explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births. This book investigates why women whose religious affiliations range from Old Order Amish to Reform Judaism defy the medical establishment, and sometimes the law to have their babies at home. It challenges both feminist and traditionalist accounts of childbearing.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela E. Klassen, Klassen Pamela E.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2001
• EAN: 9780691087986
• ISBN: 978-0-691-08798-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, United States of America, USA, Religious life and practice, Sociology: family and relationships, Religious life & practice, Sociology: Birth