Bearing Meaning
Subtitle: THE LANGUAGE OF BIRTH
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780252067150
Subjects: Women's studies; Childbirth; Sociology Of Medicine; Medical; Sociology; General; Parenting - Motherhood; Women's Health - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Gynecology & Obstetrics
First sentence: 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.