Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America.
 

Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America.

by Pamela E. Klassen

Blessed Events explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births and in turn draw on their birthing experiences to bring meaning to their lives and families. Pamela Klassen introduces a surprisingly diverse group of women, in their own words, while also setting their birth stories within wider social, political, and economic contexts. In doing so, she... (read more)

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The first 100 pages were a little dry, but erudite and interesting. It was nice to read a book about home birth that was written by a scholar and not a journalist or an interested layperson. I recommend this for anyone interested in home birthing!

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