Maternal transition : a north-south politics of pregnancy and childbirth / Candace Johnson.
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 differ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge research in gender and politics ;
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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 privileg. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317704607 1317704606 1306971632 9781306971638 9781315781136 1315781131 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |