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Author Cramer, Renée Ann, author.

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

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : knowing about legality and illegality in midwifery care in the United States -- History and status of midwives in the United States -- Modern and professional -- Mostly happy accidents -- Rights, rules, and regulation -- Catching babies, and catching hell -- Deep transformations, deep contradictions -- Conclusion : attending to birth in sociolegal scholarship.
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.
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Subject Midwives -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Midwives -- Legal status, laws, etc.
United States.
Midwives -- United States -- History.
Midwives.
History.
Social movements -- United States.
Social movements.
Childbirth -- Political aspects -- United States.
Childbirth -- Political aspects.
Childbirth.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Social movements.
Other Form: Print version: Cramer, Renée Ann. Birthing a movement Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. 9781503609839 (DLC) 2020021112
ISBN 9781503614505 electronic book
1503614506 electronic book
9781503609839 hardcover
9781503614499 paperback