Birth By Design
Subtitle: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 2, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780415923378
First sentence: For feminist writers of the 1970s, maternity care, with its medicalized and alienating approach to birth, was an apt illustration of women's oppression by patriarchal social structures.