TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cramer,Renée Ann
TI  - Birthing a movement: midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care 
SN  - 1503609839
AV  - KF2915 .M5 C73 2021
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Midwives
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - History
KW  - Social movements
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -