Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care

by Renee Ann Cramer

Book Overview

Rich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights.

Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a Movement, Ren e Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503614492
• ISBN13: 9781503614499
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"