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Book SynopsisThe 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 womenâs voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternal care system. It foregrounds Black womenâs 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. Additional resources and a reading group guide are available at www.blackwomenbirthingjustice.com.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Coercion and Malign Neglect: Black Women and the Struggle for Birth Justice by Julia Chinyere Oparah with Black Women Birthing Justice
Section I: Birthing Histories
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- Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner: "Granny Midwife," 1931-1956 by Darline Turner
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- Regulating Childbirth: Physicians and Granny Midwives in South Carolina by Alicia D. Bonaparte
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- Speak Their Names: The Power of Sankofa to Reclaim Black Midwifery by Michelle Drew
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Section II: Beyond Medical versus Natural: Redefining Birth Injustice
- An Abolitionist Mama Speaks: On Natural Birth and Miscarriage by Viviane Saleh-Hanna
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- Mothering: A Post-C-Section Journey by Jacinda Townsend
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- Confessions of a Black Pregnant Dad by Syrus Marcus Ware
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- Reclaiming Breastfeeding and Protecting Black Infant Health by Kimberly Allers Seale
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- Birth Justice and Population Control by Loretta J. Ross
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- Beyond Silence and Stigma: Pregnancy and HIV for Black Women in Canada by Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy
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- What I Carry: A Story of Love and Loss by Iris Jacob
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- Sheltering in Community: Re-imagining Black birth during the COVID-19 pandemic by Jennifer A. James, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alexus Roane
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- Images from the Safe Motherhood Quilt
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Section III: Changing Lives, One Birth at a Time
- This is How we Fight: Black Mamas and Breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic by TaNefer L. Camara
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- Birthing Sexual Freedom and Healing: A Survivor Mother's Birth Story by Biany Pérez
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- Birth as Battle Cry: A Doula's Journey from Home to Hospital by Gina Mariela Rodríguez
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- Sister Midwife: Nurturing and Reflecting Black Womanhood in an Urban Hospital by Stephanie Etienne
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- WAJAMAMA: Transforming Childbirth in Zanzibar through Holistic Midwifery Care by Nafisa Jiddawi
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- A Love Letter to My Daughter: Love as a Political Act by Haile Eshe Cole
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- New Visions in Birth, Intimacy, Kinship, and Sisterly Partnerships by Shannon Gibney and Valerie Deus
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- I Am My Hermana's Keeper: Reclaiming Afro-Indigenous Ancestral Wisdom as a Doula by Griselda Rodriguez
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- The First Cut Is the Deepest: A Mother-Daughter Conversation about Birth, Justice, Healing, and Love by Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Section IV: Taking Back Our Power: Organizing for Birth Justice
- Unexpected Allies: Obstetrician Activism, VBACs, and the Birth Justice Movement by Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah
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- Becoming an Outsider-Within: Jennie Joseph's Activism in Florida Midwifery by Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph
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- Embodied Abolitionism: Prisons, Pregnancy, and the Struggle for Birth Justice by Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah
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- Lifting Up Black Doulas: Black Women Organizing to Reimagine Birthwork by Linda Jones, Monica R. McLemore and Sayida Peprah-Wilson
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- Black Mamas Matter: How Black Women Built a National Movement for Black Maternal Health, Rights and Justice by Elizabeth Dawes Gay
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- Expanding a Transnational Movement for Sexual and Reproductive Wellbeing by Joia Crear-Perry, Kelly Davis, Ana Barreto, and Aja Clark
