Sociology: birth books

Through interviews with 120 pregnant, or recently delivered, drug-using women, this book examines pregnant drug...  Read More >>

This book tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of...  Read More >>

Testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood, and the recent discoveries by the Human...  Read More >>

Pioneering evidence is presented in this book to support the effectiveness of peer counseling for substance abuse...  Read More >>

Provides an overview of out-of-wedlock births in the United States from a comparative and historical perspective....  Read More >>

Provides an overview of out-of-wedlock births in the United States from a comparative and historical perspective....  Read More >>

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Reminding women that motherhood is an option, not an instinct, the author (a psychotherapist) writes of transforming...  Read More >>

For pregnant women in the 1930's and 1940's Dr Gantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) proposed natural childbirth as the 'normal'...  Read More >>

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In what ways do men think about and express themselves as procreative beings? Under what circumstances do they develop...  Read More >>

This powerful book takes us behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric, and the flip media sound bites to show...  Read More >>

This collection examines enduring and topical questions in sexual and reproductive health in a range of contemporary...  Read More >>

This collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth focuses on research conducted by anthropologists...  Read More >>

Intends to examine women's experience of caesarean section from its origins onwards. This book covers the historical...  Read More >>

This text is concerned with the impact of parental psychiatric disorder on parenting and child development.  Read More >>

"An account of the childbearing and rearing responsibilities which consumed, often literally, the lives of women...  Read More >>

Stories of women who mother are central to this book. The women come to mothering through birth and adoption, as...  Read More >>

Stories of women who mother are central to this book. The women come to mothering through birth and adoption, as...  Read More >>

Contains 39 writings on the history of reproduction in the US. This title stresses the centrality of gender in the...  Read More >>

Contains 39 writings on the history of reproduction in the US. This title stresses the centrality of gender in the...  Read More >>

This study shows state power at work in the struggle between foetal rights and the rights of the woman, and suggests...  Read More >>