Birth Control av Allison Yarrow

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<P><B>This "definitive book about the trauma and tragedy of the American childbirth experience" (Soraya Chemaly, author of <I>Rage Becomes Her</I>) exposes the dangerous misogyny that permeates pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood.</B><BR/><BR/> Modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in <I>Birth Control</I>, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals. </P><P> Ever since doctors stole control of birth from midwives in the 19th century, women have been steamrolled by a male-dominated medical establishment that has everyone convinced that birthing bodies are inherently flawed and that every pregnancy is a crisis that it alone can “solve.” Common medical practices and procedures violate human rights and the law, yet take place daily. Misogyny and racism, not scientific evidence an