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Writing Childbirth
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Kim Hensley Owens
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-24 - Publisher: SIU Press

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Women seeking to express concerns about childbirth or to challenge institutionalized medicine by writing online birth plans or birth stories exercise rhetorical
Writing Childbirth
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Kim Hensley Owens
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-24 - Publisher: SIU Press

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Drawing on medical texts, popular advice books, and online birth plans and birth stories, as well as the results of a childbirth writing survey, Owens considers
Women Writing Childbirth
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Tess Cosslett
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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In this work, the author's detailed readings of birth stories - both literary and medical - reveal deeply embedded assumptions about how women are viewed and vi
This Giving Birth
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Julie Ann Tharp
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Popular Press

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Compelling essays which underline the central place pregnancy and childbirth hold in women's writing. Embracing three centuries of prose and poetry, the antholo
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Christine McCourt
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. Thi