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Title:

Birthing justice : black women, pregnancy, and childbirth / edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte.

Publisher:

Paradigm Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 234 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Maternal health services--United States.
African American women--Medical care.
Prenatal care--Social aspects--United States.

Other Authors:

Oparah, Julia Chinyere, editor.
Bonaparte, Alicia D., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner : "granny midwife" 1931-1956 / Darline Turner -- Regulating childbirth : physicians and granny midwives in South Carolina / Alicia D. Bonaparte -- Between traditional knowledge and western medicine : women birthing in post-colonial Zimbabwe / Christina Mudokwenyu-Rawdon, Peggy Dube, Nester T. Moyo, and Stephen Munjanja -- An abolitionist mama speaks : on natural birth and miscarriage / Viviane Saleh-Hanna -- Mothering : a post-C-section journey / Jacinda Townsend -- Confessions of a Black pregnant dad / Syrus Marcus Ware -- Birth justice and population control / Loretta J. Ross -- Beyond silence and stigma : pregnancy and HIV for Black women in Canada / Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy -- What I carry : a story of love and loss / Iris Jacob -- Images from the safe motherhood quilt / Ina May Gaskin and Laura Gilkey -- Birthing sexual freedom and healing : a survivor mother's birth story / Biany P©♭rez --
Birth as battle cry : a doula's journey from home to hospital / Gina Mariela Rodr©Ưguez -- Sister midwife : nurturing and reflecting black womanhood in an urban hospital / Stephanie Etienne -- A love letter for my daughter : love as a political act / Haile Eshe Cole -- New visions in birth, intimacy, kinship, and sisterly partnerships / Shannon Gibney and Valerie Deus -- I am my hermana's keeper : reclaiming Afro-indigenous ancestral wisdom as a doula / Griselda Rodriguez -- The first cut Is the deepest : a mother/daughter conversation about birth, justice, healing, and love / Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Unexpected allies : obstetrician activism, VBACs, and the birth justice movement / Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah -- Birthing freedom : Black American midwifery and liberation struggles / Ruth Hays -- Becoming an outsider-within : Jennie Joseph and Florida midwifery / Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph --
Beyond shackling : prisons, pregnancy, and birth justice / Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah.

ISBN:

161205837X
9781612058375
1612058361
9781612058368

OCLC:

(OCoLC)891123243

LCCN:

2014049717

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)