Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Until the 1970s, many women gave birth under the influence of tranquilizers and anesthesia.
During the early twentieth century, women weren’t just driven out of the field of health care, they were also actively excluded from accessing medical education. And with that, the responsibility of caring for pregnant women shifted to men.
A pregnant uterus expands to over forty-five times its usual capacity:
Our culture tends to think about pregnancy in terms of the limitations it places on our bodies and lives, big and small. No
Nearly one in four new mothers in America return to work just two weeks after giving birth—but
Breast-feeding is an intense relationship but ultimately one that lasts only a short period of time.
Today, feminism means supporting women in whatever method of birth that they want.
Until the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, 88 percent of individual plans did not cover maternity care.
the utter obliteration of their previous selves?