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Summary:

"The second edition of this pathbreaking, widely taught book offers six new chapters, on breastfeeding and Black infant health; Black birthing during COVID; Black doulas rethinking birthing practices; the recent buildup of a US national movement; childbirth in Zanzibar; and expanding the global movement for sexual and reproductive well-being. Other chapters are updated throughout. Birthing Justice puts Black women's voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternal care system. It foregrounds Black women's agency in the birth justice movement. First published in 2016, Birthing Justice is a seminal text for those interested in maternal healthcare, reproductive justice, health equity, and intersectional racial justice, especially in courses on gender studies, Black studies, public health, and training programs for midwives and OB/GYNs"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Beyond coercion and malign neglect: Black women and the struggle for birth justice / Julia Chinyere Oparah
• Section I: Birthing histories
• Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner: "Granny midwife, " 1931-1956 / Darline Turner
• Regulating childbirth: Physicians and granny midwives in South Caroline / Alicia D. Bonaparte
• Speak their names: The power of Sankofa to reclaim Black midwifery / Michelle L. Drew
• Section II: Beyond medical versus natural: Redefining birth injustice
• An abolitionist mama speaks: On natural birth and miscarriage / Viviane Saleh-Hanna
• Mothering: A post-C-section / Jacinda Townsend
• Confessions of a Black pregnant dad / Syrus Marcus Ware
• Reframing breastfeeding as critical to Black maternal and infant health / Kimberly Seals Allers
• Birth justice and population control / Loretta J. Ross
• Beyond silence and stigma: Pregnancy and HIV for Black women in Canada / Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy
• What I carry: A story of love and loss / Iris Jacob
• Sheltering in community: Reimagining Black birth during the COVID-19 pandemic / Jennifer Elyse James, Alexus Roane, and Julia Chinyere Oparah
• Images from the Safe Motherhood Quilt / The Safe Motherhood Quilt Project
• Section III: Changing lives, one birth at a time
• This is how we fight!: Finding my power and protecting the peace of Black mothers in a pandemic / Tanefer L. Camara
• Birthing sexual freedom and healing: A survivor-mother's story / Biany Pérez
• Birth as battle cry: A doula's journey from home to hospital / Gina Mariela Rodríguez
• Sister Midwife: Nurturing and reflecting Black womanhood in an urban hospital / Stephanie Etienne

• WAJAMAMA: Transforming childbirth in Zanzibar through holistic midwifery care / Nafisa Jiddawi
• A love letter to my daughter: Love as a political act / Haile Eshe Cole
• New visions in birth, intimacy, kinship, and sisterly partnerships / Shannon Gibney and Valérie Déus
• I am my hermana's keeper: Reclaiming Afro-Indigenous ancestral wisdom as a doula / Griselda Rodríguez-Solomon
• The first cut is the deepest: A mother-daughter conversation about birth, justice, healing, and love / Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• Section IV: Taking back our power: Organizing for birth justice
• Unexpected allies: Obstetrician activism, VBACs, and the Birth Justice Movement / Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah
• Becoming an outsider-within: Jennie Joseph's activism in Florida midwifery / Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph
• Embodied abolition: Prisons, pregnancy, and the struggle for birth justice / Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah
• Lifting up Black doulas: Black women organizing to reimagine birthwork / Linda Jones, Sayida Peprah-Wilson, and Monica R. McLemore
• Black mamas matter: How black women built a global movement for Black maternal health, rights, and justice / Elizabeth Dawes Gay
• Expanding a transnational movement for sexual and reproductive wellbeing / Joia Crear-Perry, Ana Paula Barreto, Kelly Davis, and Aja Clark.

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Contributors:

Bonaparte, Alicia D. , editor

Oparah, Julia Chinyere , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Birthing justice (Second; New York, NY : Routledge, [2024] — ISBN 9781003425670; LCCN 2023015666)

Subjects:

Maternal health services — United States

African American women — Ethnobiology

Pregnant women — Ethnobiology — United States

Parturition

Social justice — United States

Childbirth

Pregnant people

Maternal health services

African American women

Ethnobiology

Pregnant women

Social justice

United States

General Notes:

Revised edition of: Birthing justice / edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

RG964.G72 B57 2024

ISBNs:

9781032545974 (paperback)
1032545976 (paperback)
9781032546001 (hardcover)
103254600X (hardcover)
9781003425670 (electronic book) [Invalid]
9781000922806 (electronic publication) [Invalid]
9781000922790 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023015665

OCLC Numbers:

1378597884