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A Midwife's Manifesta
Seven Stories Press
April 2011
On Sale: March 22, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 1583229272
EAN: 9781583229279
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Non-Fiction
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 birthβwhich has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sectionsβand 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.
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Diane Rehm Show - NPR - July 25, 2011
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