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Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Juliachinyer Oparah
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Description for Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Paperback. Editor(s): Oparah, Julia Chinyere; Bonaparte, Alicia D. Num Pages: 246 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JFSL3; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
There is a global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions. This book places black women's voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternity system and foregrounds black women's agency in the emerging birth justice movement. Mixing scholarly, activist, and ... Read more
There is a global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions. This book places black women's voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternity system and foregrounds black women's agency in the emerging birth justice movement. Mixing scholarly, activist, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138191457
SKU
V9781138191457
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Ref
99-2
About Juliachinyer Oparah
Julia Chinyere Oparah is Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at Mills College and a founding member of Black Women Birthing Justice. She is co-editor of Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism and Social Change and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption Alicia D. Bonaparte is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College and a medical sociologist ... Read more
Reviews for Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
A truly original and innovative book-and an absolute necessity in the current field of research on reproduction. -Christa Craven, College of Wooster, author of Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement. With its commitment to placing black women at the center of the conversation and ... Read more