num_pages: 424
description: Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever.
language: English
title: Birth as an American Rite of Passage
titlecomplete: Birth as an American Rite of Passage
genres: Feminism, History, Cultural, Sociology, Anthropology, School, Medicine, Health, Nonfiction, Parenting
ratings_count: 322
publisher: University of California Press