Cramer, Renée Ann, <br/><br/>
Birthing a movement :  midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care / 
 Midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care. 
Renée Ann Cramer. 
 - xii, 274 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Knowing About Legality and Illegality in Midwifery Care in the United States -- 1. History and Status of Midwives in the United States -- 2. Modern and Professional: Legitimating, Marketing, and Reimagining Midwives -- 3. Mostly Happy Accidents: Successfully Mobilizing for Legal Status -- 4. Rights, Rules, and Regulation -- 5. Catching Babies and Catching Hell: Constitutive Interactions in the Limits and Shadow of the Law -- 6. Deep Transformations, Deep Contradictions: Changing Birth Culture One Movie, One Picnic, One<3.>Tiny Little Epistemological Shift at a Time -- Conclusion: Attending to Birth in Sociolegal Scholarship: Embodied, Interdisciplinary, and Authoritative Knowledge. 
<br/><br/> "This is the first ethnography of American midwives and their clients and advocates. The culmination of more than a decade of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research, this project specifically interrogates the potential and pitfalls of legal and political campaigns for reproductive autonomy"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1503609839 1503614492 9781503609839 9781503614499 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020021112 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Childbirth--Political aspects--United States.<br/>Midwives--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.<br/>Midwives--History.--United States<br/>Social movements--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF2915 .M5  / C73 2021