Birthing Fathers
The Transformation of Men in American Rites of Birth
In the past two decades, men have gone from being excluded from the delivery room to being admitted, then invited, and, finally, expected to participate actively in the birth of their children. No longer mere observers, fathers attend baby showers, go to birthing classes, and share in the intimate, everyday details of their partners' pregnancies. In this unique study, Richard K. Reed draws on the feminist critique of professionalized medical birthing to argue that the clinical nature of medical intervention distances fathers from child delivery. He explores men's roles in natural childbirth and the ways in which birth transforms a man's ident…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8135-3517-3
- EAN: 9780813535173
- Produktnummer: 1815303
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 367 g
- Gewicht: 367
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Richard K. Reed is an associate professor of anthropology at Trinity University. He is the author of Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors: Indigenous Models for International Development and Prophets of Agroforestry: Guarani Communities and Commercial Gathering.
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