Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Robbie Davis-Floyd, Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, is author ofBirth as an American Rite of Passage(California, 1992) and co-editor ofCyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots(1997).Carolyn F. Sargent, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies at Southern Methodist University, is author ofMaternity, Medicine, and Power: Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin(California, 1989) and coeditor ofMedical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method(1996).