Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in AmericaPrinceton University Press, 07/10/2001 - 316 من الصفحات Blessed Events explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births and in turn draw on their birthing experiences to bring meaning to their lives and families. Pamela Klassen introduces a surprisingly diverse group of women, in their own words, while also setting their birth stories within wider social, political, and economic contexts. In doing so, she emerges with a study that disrupts conventional views of both childbirth and religion by blurring assumed divisions between conservative and feminist women and by taking childbirth seriously as a religious act. |
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Procreation Stories An Introduction | 1 |
Cultural Contexts of Home Birth | 16 |
Risk Fear and the Ethics of Home Birth | 38 |
Procreating Religion Spirituality Religion and the Transformations of Birth | 63 |
A Sense of Place Meanings of Home | 97 |
Natural Women Bodies and the Work of Birth | 135 |
Sliding between Pain and Pleasure Home Birth and Visionary Pain | 176 |
The Miracle of Birth | 213 |
Interview Guide | 221 |
The Women in the Study | 224 |
Notes | 231 |
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