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Title: Birth As an American Rite of Passage by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd ISBN: 0-520-08431-4 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful and thoughtful reading experience!
Comment: If you are a woman looking for a thoughtful review of our modern birthing culture this is a wonderful book. I have read a lot about birth options, perspectives of the birth experience, and midwifery history and philosophy but went away wanting for more. My desire to really explore an informed text about our birthing culture was finally satiated by this book. I am not an anthropologist by training and yet found the book accessible, educational, and challenging. I really suggest this book be read by everyone interested in the birth experience, partners, attendants, birthing woman, or children of technocracy.

Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing look into the technocracy of birth.
Comment: This was a paradigm blowing must read for any woman. A fluid read and with intense narratives. The most educational book I've read in a long time.

Rating: 5
Summary: Exposes Obstetric care as a disempowering ritual
Comment: The majority of obstetric procedures, from putting on a hospital gown to the birthing position itself, are unnecessary and sometimes dangerous rituals that are perpetuated by an authoritarian system in its desire to maintain control over a virtually uncontrollable process. Robbie Davis-Floyd has studied these rituals of birth; why taking the ride to L&D in the wheelchair sets up an invalid mindset in the laboring woman, and how the lithotomy position robs the woman of her birthing power, forcing her to rely on the medical professions to deliver her baby for her.

It is powerful stuff and difficult to accept, but truth sometimes is.

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