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Who's Having this Baby?: Perspectives on Birthing [Paperback]

Helen M. Sterk (Author), Carla H. Hay (Author), Alice B. Kehoe (Author), Krista Ratcliffe (Author), Leona G. VendeVusse (Author)
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March 31, 2002
Drawing on a richly diverse collection of more than 130 interviews, this book brings to life the nagging question of just who is having this baby, anyway? Though the birthing process is framed and handled differently from country to country, even from region to region, in America the prevailing norm situates birth in hospitals, managed by doctors and nurses who rely on a variety of technologies to assist them. Medical institution, rather than women, control the birth experience.
     In Who's Having This Baby? five authors use multidisciplinary approaches to examine verbal birthing narratives. A rhetorician investigates power relations among all people involved in the birthing process. A historian exposes the history of how women's bodies have been viewed and scripted according to the logic of an assembly line. A literary scholar explores the cultural losses caused by women's silence on what it means to give birth. A scholar discusses the colonization practiced on Native American women's bodies when their birthing practices are divorced from their culture. Finally, a midwife discusses how incorporating women as partners rather than patients in the birthing process leads to significantly better outcomes for women during the birth experience.
     In its conclusion, this work argues that women should become active participants in their own birthing experiences, and that caregiving systems should change to accommodate women during birth.
 

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Helen M. Sterk is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Marquette University.



Krista Ratcliffe is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Marquette University. The author of Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, and Adrienne Rich and coauthor of Who's Having This Baby? Perspectives on Birthing, she has written numerous journal articles and books on feminism and rhetoric.



Leona VandeVusse is the Nurse-Midwifery Program Director and an Associate Professor, Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, WI.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 177 pages
  • Publisher: Michigan State University Press (March 31, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0870136151
  • ISBN-13: 978-0870136153
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #590,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars After all, who is having this baby?, March 27, 2003
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This book answers the question, "After all, who is having this baby?" And it's not doctors, nurses, or husbands. It's women.

So many books on childbirth are written by the experts--all of whom know birth by watching it. In this book, the authors feature women's stories of birth. Drawing on over 130 birthing stories, the authors show how a good birth is one in which the women feels she has been heard and is being honored. According to the interviews, not too many births actually meet these two standards, especially if the birth takes place in a hospital.

With good humor, good thinking and good writing, the five authors present readers with a short, sharp book that encourages them to consider women first when making decisions about birthing. It offers evidence and strategies to support decisions that honor women who are having babies.

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