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Embracing the Past, Understanding the Present, Creating the Future: Feminism and Midwifery

Abstract:

...While birthing is a natural phenomenon, the practices surrounding childbirth, the attitudes and values which accompany birth and childbirth knowledge are cultural, social and political phenomena. These cultural, social and political influences have evolved over time. The lives of midwives and women have been shaped and continue to be shaped by dominant and pervasive ideologies that have evolved historically. We are our histories.

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cultural, social and political evolution, hegemony and ideology, knowledge, personal and professional history, social theory and feminism