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Titolo: Placenta Wit
Condizione: Nuovo
SubtÃtulos: Mothers Stories, Rituals and Research
Autore: Nane Jordan
Formato: Tascabile
EAN: 9781772581072
ISBN: 9781772581072
Publisher: Demeter Press
Genere: Society & Culture
Soggetto: Gender Sex & Relationships
Data di pubblicazione: 30/07/2017
Description: Placenta Wit is an interdisciplinary anthology of stories, rituals, and research that explores mothers' contemporary and traditional uses of the human afterbirth. Authors inspire, provoke and highlight diverse understandings of the placenta and its role in mothers' creative life-giving. Through medicalization of childbirth, many North American mothers do not have access to their babies' placentas, nor would many think to. Placentas are often considered to be medical property, and/ or viewed as the refuse of birth. Yet there is now greater understanding of motherand baby-centred birth care, in which careful treatment of the placenta and cord can play an integral role. In reclaiming birth at home and in clinical settings, mothers are choosing to keep their placentas. There is a revival, and survival, of family and community rituals with the placenta and umbilical cord, including burying, art making, and consuming for therapeutic use. Claiming and honouring the placenta may play a vital role in understanding the sacredness of birth and the gift of life that mothers bring. Placenta Wit gathers narrative accounts, scholarly essays, creative pieces and artwork from this emergence of placental interests and uses. This collection includes understandings from birth cultures and communities such as home-birth, hospital-birth, midwifery, doula, Indigenous, and feminist perspectives. Once lost, now found, Placenta Wit authors capably handle and care for this wise organ at the roots of motherhood, and life itself.
Lingua: inglese
Paese di origine: CA
Altezza: 229mm
Lunghezza: 152mm
Larghezza: 15mm
Peso: 404g
Title Format: Paperback
Anno di pubblicazione: 2017
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