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**Rich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights.** Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In __Birthing a Movement__, Renée Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism surrounding midwifery care. Framed by gripping narratives from midwives across the country, she parses out the often-paradoxical priorities with which they must engage—seeking formal professionalization, advocating for reproductive justice, and resisting state-centered approaches. Currently, professional midwives are legal and regulated in their practice in 32 states and illegal in eight, where their practice could bring felony convictions and penalties that include imprisonment. In the remaining ten states, Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) are unregulated, but nominally legal. By studying states where CPMs have differing legal statuses, Cramer makes the case that midwives and their clients engage in various forms of mobilization—at times simultan

Who reads Birthing a Movement : Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care?

Author

Renée Ann Cramer

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781503614505

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Law, History