Barbara Katz Rothman: 3 books
A Bun in the Oven
How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there’s...
Laboring On
Birth in Transition in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization — best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent — and a rhetoric of women’s "choices" and...
Health, Culture and Society
Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories...