Birthing Justice (eBook, ePUB)

Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Redaktion: Bonaparte, Alicia D.; Oparah, Julia Chinyere

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of this pathbreaking, widely taught book offers 5 new chapters, on breastfeeding and Black infant health; Black birthing during Covid; Black doulas rethinking birthing practices and the recent buildup of a US national movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000922806
• Artikelnr.: 68481281

Autorenporträt

Alicia D. Bonaparte is Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College and is a medical sociologist whose research examines the gendered social hierarchy within US medicine and the intersection of race and gender in healthcare practices and disparities. She contributed to The Routledge Companion to Motherhood and Black Feminist Sociology (also published by Routledge) and is completing her book manuscript, Labors of Birthing Work: The Persecution and Prosecution of Granny Midwives, 1900-1940. Julia Chinyere Oparah ("Chinyere") is a social justice educator, activist scholar, and transformational leader. She is Professor and Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of San Francisco and Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at Mills College. Chinyere is co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice. She is author and editor of numerous publications, including Battling Over Birth, Birthing Justice (first edition), Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex, Activist Scholarship, and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. She lives in Oakland, California, with her partner and daughter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beyond Coercion and Malign Neglect: Black Women and the
Struggle for Birth Justice by Julia Chinyere Oparah with Black Women
Birthing Justice
Section I: Birthing Histories
1. Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner: "Granny Midwife," 1931-1956 by Darline
Turner
2. Regulating Childbirth: Physicians and Granny Midwives in South
Carolina by Alicia D. Bonaparte
3. Speak Their Names: The Power of Sankofa to Reclaim Black Midwifery by
Michelle Drew
Section II: Beyond Medical versus Natural: Redefining Birth Injustice
4. An Abolitionist Mama Speaks: On Natural Birth and Miscarriage by
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
5. Mothering: A Post-C-Section Journey by Jacinda Townsend
6. Confessions of a Black Pregnant Dad by Syrus Marcus Ware
7. Reclaiming Breastfeeding and Protecting Black Infant Health by
Kimberly Allers Seale
8. Birth Justice and Population Control by Loretta J. Ross
9. Beyond Silence and Stigma: Pregnancy and HIV for Black Women in
Canada by Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy
10. What I Carry: A Story of Love and Loss by Iris Jacob
11. Sheltering in Community: Re-imagining Black birth during the COVID-19
pandemic by Jennifer A. James, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alexus Roane
12. Images from the Safe Motherhood Quilt
Section III: Changing Lives, One Birth at a Time
13. This is How we Fight: Black Mamas and Breastfeeding during the
COVID-19 pandemic by TaNefer L. Camara
14. Birthing Sexual Freedom and Healing: A Survivor Mother's Birth Story
by Biany Pérez
15. Birth as Battle Cry: A Doula's Journey from Home to Hospital by Gina
Mariela Rodríguez
16. Sister Midwife: Nurturing and Reflecting Black Womanhood in an Urban
Hospital by Stephanie Etienne
17. WAJAMAMA: Transforming Childbirth in Zanzibar through Holistic
Midwifery Care by Nafisa Jiddawi
18. A Love Letter to My Daughter: Love as a Political Act by Haile Eshe
Cole
19. New Visions in Birth, Intimacy, Kinship, and Sisterly Partnerships by
Shannon Gibney and Valerie Deus
20. I Am My Hermana's Keeper: Reclaiming Afro-Indigenous Ancestral Wisdom
as a Doula by Griselda Rodriguez
21. The First Cut Is the Deepest: A Mother-Daughter Conversation about
Birth, Justice, Healing, and Love by Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Section IV: Taking Back Our Power: Organizing for Birth Justice
22. Unexpected Allies: Obstetrician Activism, VBACs, and the Birth
Justice Movement by Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah
23. Becoming an Outsider-Within: Jennie Joseph's Activism in Florida
Midwifery by Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph
24. Embodied Abolitionism: Prisons, Pregnancy, and the Struggle for Birth
Justice by Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah
25. Lifting Up Black Doulas: Black Women Organizing to Reimagine
Birthwork by Linda Jones, Monica R. McLemore and Sayida Peprah-Wilson
26. Black Mamas Matter: How Black Women Built a National Movement for
Black Maternal Health, Rights and Justice by Elizabeth Dawes Gay
27. Expanding a Transnational Movement for Sexual and Reproductive
Wellbeing by Joia Crear-Perry, Kelly Davis, Ana Barreto, and Aja
Clark