Women Confined: Towards a Sociology of Childbirth
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Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0805237437
ISBN13:9780805237436
Release Date:January 1980
Publisher:Schocken Books Inc
Length:343 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
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This review relates to the Schocken first edition of 1980... From the dustjacket: "Welcome to a superb story of what it is like to have a baby...and to take part in the obstacle race made by our society of the important transition to motherhood." "This book sets forth the ways in which human reproduction and women as reproducers are socially defined in contemporary culture." TABLE OF CONTENTS Notes on Tables and Tests of Significance Introduction Paradigms of Women as Reproducers - Medical Maternity Cases - Psychological Constructs - The Sociological Unimagination The Subjective Logic of Reproduction - Researching the Transition to Motherhood - Assessing Outcome - Only Connect - Victims and Victors - Reproduction and Change - Losses and Gains - A Psychology of Women? Conclusion - Mistakes and Mystiques - Proposing the Future Notes Bibliography (15 pp) Index
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