Birthing justice
Subtitle: black women, pregnancy, and childbirth
By: edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781612058368; 9781612058375; 9781612059167; 9781612058382
Subjects: Maternal Health Services; African Americans; Ethnology; Civil Rights; Parturition; Pregnant Women; Social Justice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner : "granny midwife" 1931-1956 / Darline Turner; title: Regulating childbirth : physicians and granny midwives in South Carolina / Alicia D. Bonaparte; title: Between traditional knowledge and western medicine : women birthing in post-colonial Zimbabwe / Christina Mudokwenyu-Rawdon, Peggy Dube, Nester T. Moyo, and Stephen Munjanja; title: An abolitionist mama speaks : on natural birth and miscarriage / Viviane Saleh-Hanna; title: Mothering : a post-C-section journey / Jacinda Townsend; title: Confessions of a black pregnant dad / Syrus Marcus Ware; title: Birth justice, population control, and the reproductive rights movement / Loretta J. Ross; title: Beyond silence and stigma : pregnancy and HIV for African diasporic women in Canada / Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy; title: What I carry : a story of love and loss / Iris Jacob; title: Images from the safe motherhood quilt / Ina May Gaskin and Laura Gilkey; title: Birthing sexual freedom and healing : a survivor mother's birth story / Biany Pérez; title: Birth as battle cry : a doula's journey from home to hospital / Gina Mariela Rodríguez; title: Sister midwife : nurturing and reflecting black womanhood in an urban hospital / Stephanie Etienne; title: A love letter for my daughter : love as a political act / Haile Eshe Cole; title: New visions in birth, intimacy, kinship, and sisterly partnerships / Shannon Gibney and Valerie Deus; title: I am my hermana's keeper : reclaiming Afro-indigenous ancestral wisdom as a doula / Griselda Rodriguez; title: The first cut Is the deepest : a mother/daughter conversation about birth, justice, healing, and love / Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs; title: Unexpected allies : obstetrician activism, VBACs, and the birth justice movement / Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah; title: Birthing freedom : black American midwifery and liberation struggles / Ruth Hays; title: Becoming an outsider-within : Jennie Joseph and Florida midwifery / Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph; title: Beyond shackling : prisons, pregnancy, and birth justice / Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah.