Birth as an American Rite of Passage
Second Edition, With a New Preface| By: | Robbie E. Davis-Floyd |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780520229327 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780520927216 |
| Edition: | 2 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever.