Birth Matters: Discourses of Childbirth in Contemporary American Culture

In this project, I use a rhetorical-cultural approach to examine the multiple and often-contradictory messages circulating in contemporary American culture about the event of childbirth. Though many feminist scholars have shown how professional obstetrics view of physiological birth shapes medical p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: West, Jennifer Ellis
Other Authors: Weinstein, Susan D.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2011
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04202011-093522/