Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

ISBN-13:	9781583229279
Publisher:	Seven Stories Press
Publication date:	03/22/2011
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	199,092
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.