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Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species. Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth-which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections-and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.
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Birth Matters, Ina May Gaskin, Ani DiFranco
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Birth Matters
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ina May Gaskin, Ani DiFranco
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1583229272
- ISBN13
- 9781583229279
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Health & Medicine, Self-Help, Women, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Science, Health, Parenting, Feminism, Parenthood
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species. Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth-which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections-and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.