Author: | Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi | ISBN: | 9780253115768 |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press | Publication: | February 22, 1994 |
Imprint: | Indiana University Press | Language: | English |
Author: | Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi |
ISBN: | 9780253115768 |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Publication: | February 22, 1994 |
Imprint: | Indiana University Press |
Language: | English |
Rabuzzi rejects the status quo, presenting viable, often spiritual, alternatives to prevailing high-tech, patriarchal models of childbirth." —Booklist
Excellent." —The Reader’s Review
A lovely book.... It is a book for anyone wishing to reexamine and reclaim birth’s potential for sacredness." —Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage
Rabuzzi, author of The Sacred and the Feminine and Motherself, contends that childbearing has been denigrated, denied, and devalued. This book is intended to help women rename, re-ritualize, reinterpret, and reframe childbearing for themselves and their partners.
Rabuzzi rejects the status quo, presenting viable, often spiritual, alternatives to prevailing high-tech, patriarchal models of childbirth." —Booklist
Excellent." —The Reader’s Review
A lovely book.... It is a book for anyone wishing to reexamine and reclaim birth’s potential for sacredness." —Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage
Rabuzzi, author of The Sacred and the Feminine and Motherself, contends that childbearing has been denigrated, denied, and devalued. This book is intended to help women rename, re-ritualize, reinterpret, and reframe childbearing for themselves and their partners.