num_pages: 178
description: Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Sifting through nearly five decades of providing care for women in rural Greene County, she relates the tales that capture the life-and-death struggle of the birthing experience and the traditions, pharmacopeia, and spiritual attitudes that influenced her practice. Believed to be the oldest living (though retired) traditional African American midwife in Alabama, Smith is one of the few who can recount old-time birthing ways.
language: English
title: Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife
titlecomplete: Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife (Women and Health)
genres: Feminism, Historical, History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 262
series: Women, Gender, and Health
publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr