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Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Author : Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520927214
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Birth as an American Rite of Passage written by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever.

Birth Rite

Author : X. Aratare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692293706
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Birth Rite written by X. Aratare and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world of sex, magic and old gods awaits and the LaMascares Mansion is the doorway ... Justin Devereaux has always been different, and not just in looks from his parents. His interests run to the magical and mysterious while theirs seem very pedestrian and small. The one thing that has always interested him and frightened them is the LaMascares Mansion. The mansion has sat long, seemingly empty and abandoned, but Justin feels someone in it watching over him. Peren LaMascares has been trapped in the mansion on the hill for too many years to count. He needs a LaMascares' heir to free him and bring about the family's - and world's - dark destiny. He finds that heir in the innocent, unsuspecting Justin. Peren leads Justin into a world of sex, magic and old gods. Will Justin abandon all the morals he's ever had so that he can have the lust-filled passion that Peren offers forever?

Rites of Spring

Author : Modris Eksteins
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307361772
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Rites of Spring written by Modris Eksteins and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins. Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the aftermath of World War I--from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places." In this extraordinary book, Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, All Quiet on the Western Front. Rites of Spring is a remarkable and rare work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past and toward our future.

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Author : Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000574288
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Birth as an American Rite of Passage written by Robbie Davis-Floyd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the "standard procedures" that are routinely used to "manage" American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals that enact and transmit the core values of the American technocracy, thereby answering the pressing question of why these interventions continue to be performed despite all evidence to the contrary. This third edition brings together Davis-Floyd's insights into the intense ritualization of labor and birth and the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of birth with new data collected in recent years.

The Manner Born

Author : Lauren Dundes
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0585459657
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book The Manner Born written by Lauren Dundes and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, such as attitudes and techniques in childbirth, the influence of societal factors that differentiate Western from non-Western maternal birthing positions, the art of midwifery, customs and beliefs regarding breastfeeding, weaning, swaddling. This book will be valuable for courses in medical sociology and anthropology, public health or behavioral sciences, psychology and psychiatry, and for pre-med students.

Red Medicine

Author : Patrisia Gonzales
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599718
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Red Medicine written by Patrisia Gonzales and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans and Mexican Indigenous peoples. For Gonzales, a central guiding force in Red Medicine is the principal of regeneration as it is manifested in Spiderwoman. Dating to Pre-Columbian times, the Mesoamerican Weaver/Spiderwoman—the guardian of birth, medicine, and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bath—exemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental, spiritual and physical manifestations. Gonzales also explains how dreaming is a form of diagnosing in traditional Indigenous medicine and how Indigenous concepts of the body provide insight into healing various kinds of trauma. Gonzales links pre-Columbian thought to contemporary healing practices by examining ancient symbols and their relation to current curative knowledges among Indigenous peoples. Red Medicine suggests that Indigenous healing systems can usefully point contemporary people back to ancestral teachings and help them reconnect to the dynamics of the natural world.

The Manner Born

Author : Lauren Dundes
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759102651
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Manner Born written by Lauren Dundes and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, such as attitudes and techniques in childbirth, the influence of societal factors that differentiate Western from non-Western maternal birthing positions, the art of midwifery, customs and beliefs regarding breastfeeding, weaning, swaddling. This book will be valuable for courses in medical sociology and anthropology, public health or behavioral sciences, psychology and psychiatry, and for pre-med students.

Imagery, Ritual, and Birth

Author : Anna M. Hennessey
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498548741
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Imagery, Ritual, and Birth written by Anna M. Hennessey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. This book explores how imagery is used in religious, secular, and nonreligious ways during the contemporary rituals of birth, through analysis of a wide variety of art, iconography, poetry, and material culture.

Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191570761
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England by : David Cressy

Download or read book Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England written by David Cressy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the life-cycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation, the Revolution, and the Restoration. Each of the major rituals was potentially an arena for argument, ambiguity, and dissent. Ideally, as classic rites of passage, these ceremonies worked to bring people together. But they also set up traps into which people could stumble, and tests which not everybody could pass. In practice, ritual performance revealed frictions and fractures that everyday local discourse attempted to hide or to heal. Using fascinating first-hand evidence, David Cressy shows how the making and remaking of ritual formed part of a continuing debate, sometimes strained and occasionally acrimonious, which exposed the raw nerves of society in the midst of great historical events. In doing so, he vividly brings to life the common experiences of living and dying in Tudor and Stuart England.

The Great Debate

Author : Yuval Levin
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465040942
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Great Debate written by Yuval Levin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Striving to forge a new political path in the tumultuous age of the American and French revolutions, these two ideological titans sparred over moral and philosophical questions about the nature of political life and the best approach to social change: radical and swift, or gradual and incremental. The division they articulated continues to shape our political life today. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the basis of our political order and Washington's acrimonious rifts today, The Great Debate offers a profound examination of what conservatism, progressivism, and the debate between them truly amount to.

Rites of Life

Author : Landrum Brewer Shettles
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rites of Life written by Landrum Brewer Shettles and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Birthright Lottery

Author : Ayelet Shachar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032712
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Birthright Lottery written by Ayelet Shachar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast majority of the global population acquires citizenship purely by accidental circumstances of birth. There is little doubt that securing membership status in a given state bequeaths to some a world filled with opportunity and condemns others to a life with little hope. Gaining privileges by such arbitrary criteria as one’s birthplace is discredited in virtually all fields of public life, yet birthright entitlements still dominate our laws when it comes to allotting membership in a state. In The Birthright Lottery, Ayelet Shachar argues that birthright citizenship in an affluent society can be thought of as a form of property inheritance: that is, a valuable entitlement transmitted by law to a restricted group of recipients under conditions that perpetuate the transfer of this prerogative to their heirs. She deploys this fresh perspective to establish that nations need to expand their membership boundaries beyond outdated notions of blood-and-soil in sculpting the body politic. Located at the intersection of law, economics, and political philosophy, The Birthright Lottery further advocates redistributional obligations on those benefiting from the inheritance of membership, with the aim of ameliorating its most glaring opportunity inequalities.

Birth Right

Author : Julie Werner
Publisher : Harrison House
ISBN 13 : 9781606833483
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Birth Right written by Julie Werner and published by Harrison House. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could something that God created to be so natural become so unnatural? We live in a world filled with news of rising rates of miscarriage, premature births, and fertility treatments. In this 40-week devotional, author Julie Werner takes you through each week of pregnancy, with an explanation of how your baby is growing, what you might be experiencing, and promises from the Scriptures that you can apply each week. Packed with real-life testimonies from fellow moms who have been in these tough situations and tips on how to survive dreaded pregnancy symptoms such as morning sickness and swollen ankles, Birth Right covers every inch of your pregnancy. Most importantly, learn how God has promised to never leave you or abandon you in any situation and how He wants to give you the desires of your heart.

Reclaiming Childbirth As a Rite of Passage

Author : Rachel Reed
Publisher : Word Witch
ISBN 13 : 9780645002508
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Childbirth As a Rite of Passage written by Rachel Reed and published by Word Witch. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for a childbirth revolution.The modern approach to maternity care fails women, families and care providers with outdated practices that centre the needs of institutions rather than individuals.In this book, Rachel Reed weaves history, science and research with the experiences of women and care providers to create a holistic, evidence-based framework for understanding birth.Reclaiming childbirth as a rite of passage requires us to recognise that mothers own the power and expertise when it comes to birthing their babies.Whether you are a parent, care provider or educator, this book will transform how you think and feel about childbirth.

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering

Author : Sarah Buckley
Publisher : Celestial Arts
ISBN 13 : 0307832031
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering written by Sarah Buckley and published by Celestial Arts. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative guide to natural childbirth and postpartum parenting options from an MD who home-birthed her own four children. Sarah Buckley might be called a third-wave natural birth advocate. A doctor and a mother, she approaches the question of how a woman and baby might have the most fulfilling birth experience with respect for the wisdom of both medical science and the human body. Using current medical and epidemiological research plus women's experiences (including her own), she demonstrates that what she calls "undisturbed birth" is almost always healthier and safer than high-technology approaches to birth. Her wise counsel on issues like breastfeeding and sleeping during postpartum helps extend the gentle birth experience into a gentle parenting relationship.

Labyrinth of Birth

Author : Pam England
Publisher : Birthing from Within Books
ISBN 13 : 9781616230371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Labyrinth of Birth written by Pam England and published by Birthing from Within Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to transform the experience of childbirth, this manual calls upon the use of the timeless and powerful symbol of the labyrinth in 12 simple meditations and ceremonies. Ideal as a tool for centering the self and calming the body and mind, this guide ushers readers through the inner journey of the childbearing year--from pregnancy and labor through the postpartum stage. A variety of labyrinths--including four childbirth-related labyrinths from the Hopi and Papago cultures in the American Southwest and two others from India--are presented in this handbook and cover topics that include helping mothers focus on their emotional and spiritual state preparation for birth, aid in calming the mind and steadying breathing during birth, and allowing parents to fully process their experiences. Instructions for drawing a classic labyrinth, ideas for personalizing the design, and labyrinth "seeds"--start-up patterns for six variations of labyrinth--are also included.

Gazing Into Glory

Author : Bruce D Allen
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768490111
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Gazing Into Glory written by Bruce D Allen and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gazing Into Glory reveals the Lord's intent for spiritual manifestations to become your normal Christian experience. This book rests on solid biblical support and is built on modern-day, real-life supernatural experiences. You too will discover the true essence of the glory of God. There has been a growing hunger and passion in the hearts of God's people-- birthed by the Holy Spirit-- to more fully walk in the spirit and access in a more specific way all that the Word indicates is yours. You are encouraged to use Gazing Into Glory as a roadmap as you journey into the lifestyle and mindset that God destined for you to enjoy. By expounding upon the power and benefits of the Glory of God, the scriptural manifestations of God's glory become more than parables-- they embrace you. Walking in the supernatural is not promised only to a select mystical few. The experience belongs to all believers who choose to pursue the promises of God for themsleves--it belongs to you.