Mother with Child: Transformations through Childbirth
ISBN: 9780253115768
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Motherhood; Self; Pregnancy -- Psychological aspects; Childbirth -- Psychological aspects;

"Rabuzzi rejects the status quo, presenting viable, often spiritual, alternatives to prevailing high-tech, patriarchal models of childbirth" ( Booklist ).

Rabuzzi, author of The Sacred and the Feminine and Motherself , contends that childbearing has been denigrated, denied, and devalued. This book is intended to help women rename, re-ritualize, reinterpret, and reframe childbearing for themselves and their partners.

"A lovely book. . . . It is a book for anyone wishing to reexamine and reclaim birth's potential for sacredness." --Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage

"Excellent." -- The Reader's Review

KATHRYN ALLEN RABUZZI teaches English at Syracuse University, is the author of Motherself: A Mythic Analysis of Motherhood and The Sacred and the Feminine: Towards a Theology of Housework, and is a founding editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.


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