Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum (2009): Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum Westerns it's no-holds-barred

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Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum (2009): Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum Westerns it's no-holds-barredThis book will explore the childbirth process through globally diverse perspectives in order to offer a broader context with which to think about birth. We will address multiple rituals and management models surrounding the labor and birth process from communities across the globe. Labor and birth are biocultural events that are managed in countless ways. We are particularly interested in the notion of power. Who controls the pregnancy and the birth?