Tag: Birthing

April 25, 2024

(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts

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Free Download Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black, Susanne Garvis, "(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts"
English | 2020 | pages: 308 | ISBN: 3030382133, 3030382109 | PDF | 7,3 mb
This book engages expansively with the concept of motherhood in academia, to offer insights into re-imagining a more responsive higher education. Written collaboratively as international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational collectives, the editors and contributors use various ways of understanding ‘motherhood’ to draw attention to – and disrupt – the masculine structures currently defining women’s lives and work in the academy. Shifting the focus from patriarchal understandings of academe, the narratives embrace and champion feminist and feminine scholarship. The book invites the reader to question what can be conceived when motherhood is imagined more expansively, through lenses traditionally silenced or made invisible. This pioneering volume will be of interest and value to feminist scholars, as well as those interested in disrupting patriarchal academic structures.

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January 1, 2024

Mothers, Midwives and Reimagining Birthing in the South Bronx Breathe, Now Push

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Free Download Mothers, Midwives and Reimagining Birthing in the South Bronx: Breathe, Now Push by Jennifer Dohrn
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 195 Pages | ISBN : 3031437764 | 2.5 MB
Women came through the doors at a community-based birthing center in the South Bronx seeking prenatal care. They had heard about the center from a neighbor, a parents’ group at their children’s school, or the local mosque or church. What they found when they arrived was a brightly-colored waiting area that resembled a living room, children immersed in games in a corner, and staff that reflected the mosaic of cultures living in the surrounding apartments. They also met midwives who asked about their lives, their children, their families and traditions. If pregnancies developed complications, back-up obstetricians were there to give higher levels of care, with the women returning to the midwifery center afterwards. The results were healthy mothers and healthy babies. For over twenty years the center became a haven for women’s health care and a national exemplar.

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