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In one of the earliest stories of Western tradition-thought to be written down around 750 B.C.-Homer makes an equation between the suffering of a soldier in battle and of a woman in childbirth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maialogical perspective, relational self grounded, postpartum chapter, childbearing policy, obstetric text, instructive properties, technological veil, bitter trap, childbirth movement, obstetric hand, embodied bond, childbirth reform, term obstetrics, matrifocal cultures, social quest, reproductive consciousness, popular health movement, seventeenth edition, cesarean hysterectomy, fourteenth edition, maternal body, sixteenth edition, organic cycle, fifteenth edition, cesarean scar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Mother Earth, Williams Obstetrics, Mary O'Brien, Alice Miller, Gerda Lerner, Middle Ages, Adrienne Rich, Boston Women's Health Collective, Women's Health Information Center, Barbara Katz Rothman, Hebrew Bible, Native American, Sheila Kitzinger, Third World, Carol Christ, Christine de Pizan, New York, Norma Swenson, Urban Planning Aid, Alice Walker, Ann Oakley, Booth Maternity Center, Doris Haire New!
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