Maternal transition : a North-South politics of pregnancy and childbirth /

"What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women's preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this question vary from one community to the next, and often from woman to the next, although the trends in the Global North and South are strikingly...

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Main Authors: Johnson, Candace, 1971
Published: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge research in gender and politics ; 3
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Summary: "What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women's preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this question vary from one community to the next, and often from woman to the next, although the trends in the Global North and South are strikingly different. Employing three conceptual frames; medicalization, the public-private distinction, and intersectionality, Candace Johnson examines these differences through the narratives of women in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Honduras. In Canada and the United States, women from privileged and margina
Carrier Form: xii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index.
ISBN: 9780415745109 (hardback) :
0415745101 (hardback)
Index Number: HQ759
CLC: C913.68
Call Number: C913.68/J663