Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America

by Pamela E. Klassen

Book Overview

Blessed Events explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births and in turn draw on their birthing experiences to bring meaning to their lives and families. Pamela Klassen introduces a surprisingly diverse group of women, in their own words, while also setting their birth stories within wider social, political, and economic contexts. In doing so, she emerges with a study that disrupts conventional views...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691087989
• ISBN13: 9780691087986
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"