Our Bodies Our Babies

Download or read book Our Bodies, Our Babies written by Kerreen M. Reiger and published by Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the changes in Australian maternity care practices as women take more control of childbirth in a hospital system traditionally headed by men. Drawn from interviews with mothers, midwives and doctors, the author explores the childbirth and breastfeeding movements and their relevance to feminism and women's rights, and the struggle to change approaches to childbirth through education and empowerment. Foreword by Shiela Kitzinger. Includes photos, notes, bibliography and index. Author is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University, and her previous books are 'The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian Family' and 'Family Economy'.