Birthing justice : black women, pregnancy, and childbirth

Title
  1. Birthing justice : black women, pregnancy, and childbirth / edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte.
Published by
  1. Boulder, CO, USA : Paradigm Publishers, [2015]

Details

Additional authors
  1. Oparah, Julia Chinyere
  2. Bonaparte, Alicia D.
Description
  1. x, 234 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Maternal health services > United States
  2. African American women > Medical care
  3. Prenatal care > Social aspects > United States
  4. Maternal Health Services > United States
  5. African Americans > ethnology > United States
  6. Civil Rights > United States
  7. Parturition > ethnology > United States
  8. Pregnant Women > ethnology > United States
  9. Social Justice > United States
Contents
  1. 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 Pérez -- Birth as battle cry : a doula's journey from home to hospital / Gina Mariela Rodríguez -- 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Birthing justice : black women, pregnancy, and childbirth / edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte.
Publisher
  1. Boulder, CO, USA : Paradigm Publishers, [2015]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Oparah, Julia Chinyere, editor.
  2. Bonaparte, Alicia D., editor.
LCCN
  1. 2014049717
ISBN
  1. 9781612058368 hardcover alk. paper
  2. 1612058361 hardcover alk. paper
  3. 9781612058375 pbk. alk. paper
  4. 161205837X pbk. alk. paper
  5. 9781612059167 library ebook
  6. 9781612058382 consumer ebook
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