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  • Our Bodies, Our Babies

    The Forgotten Women's Movement

    This is a wonderful book . . . read it and consider what has been won, and how much more needs to be won, in the childbirth revolution!Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New YorkKerreen Reiger is absolutely right to see the childbirth movement as the forgotten women's movement, and the great pleasure of this book is to find in every chapter the right questions being asked. Janet McCalman, ... Leer más

    $13.71 USD

  • Enjoying the Interval: Murray Enkin: A Life

    Medical Humanist and Honorary Midwife

    Anyone who has enjoyed the great happiness and intimacy of a family-centred birth, and any midwife or health professional who has attended one, owes a debt of gratitude to internationally known Canadian doctor, researcher, and medical reformer, Murray Enkin. Enjoying the Interval takes on the fascinating, joyful task of exploring Dr Enkin’s identity and achievements along with the social context ... Leer más

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  • Give Birth Like a Feminist

    Your body. Your baby. Your choices.

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    As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parentsBirth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about.For too long women have been told, ‘a healthy baby is all that matters’. This book dares to say women matter too.Finally blasting the feminist spotlight into the labour ward, Milli Hill enc... ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD

  • Hard to Bear

    Investigating the science and silence of miscarriage

    ‘An unbeatable combination of compassion and courage, help and hope.’ – Kaz Cooke, author of Up the Duff and You’re Doing it WrongEvery year miscarriage affects up to 150,000 Australians and the people that love them. So why are we so damned bad at dealing with it?A busy doctor dismissing a patient’s physical or mental pain, an emergency department falling far short of adequate care or a friend or ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD

  • Abortion to Abolition

    Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada

    The history of abortion decriminalization and critical advocacy efforts to improve access in Canada deserve to be better known. Ordinary people persevered to make Canada the most progressive country in the world with respect to abortion care. But while abortion access is poorly understood, so too are the persistent threats to reproductive justice in this country: sexual violence, gun violence, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Nursing Mums

    A history of the Australian Breastfeeding Association 19642014

    In 1964 six Melbourne mothers began a quiet revolution. Frustrated at the invisibility of breastfeeding advice in a society where artificial feeding of infants was increasingly accepted as the norm, they formed an association to assist mothers like themselves to breastfeed. Nursing Mums tells the story of how a grass-roots association grew to national proportions as the Nursing Mothers Association ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Untangling the Maternity Crisis

    Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a toxic environment both in which to practise and to give birth, this book looks at how we can change this. Its aim is promoting the best possible experiences of childbearing, and confident, strengthening and loving contexts for new parenthood.Designed to create awareness about the professional and political realities which enmesh maternity care ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Politics of Maternity

    The evidence surrounding the skills and approaches to support good birth has grown exponentially over the last two decades, but so too have the obstacles facing women and midwives who strive to achieve good birth.This new book critically explores the complex issues surrounding contemporary childbirth practices in a climate which is ever more medicalised amidst greater insecurity at broad social ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Birthing Autonomy

    Women's Experiences of Planning Home Births

    Birthing Autonomy brings some balance to the difficult arguments that arise from debates about home births, and focuses on women’s views and their experiences of planning home births. It provides an in-depth exploration of how women make decisions about home births and what aspects matter most to them. Comparing how differently the pros and cons of home births are constructed and contemplated by ... Leer más

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  • Galileo's Middle Finger

    Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice

    de Alice Dreger ...
    **New York Times Book Review"[S]mart, delightful... a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism and science.”Editors's Choice, New York Times Book Review**An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo’s Middle Finger is one American’s eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. For two decades, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of National Women's Hospital

    A History

    de Linda Bryder ...
    In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the annals of National Women's Hospital over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups, and patients to show how together their dialog shaped the nature of motherhood and women's health in 20th-century New Zealand. Natural childbirth and rooming in, ... Leer más

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