Ina May Gaskin Celebrates the Publication of Her New Book
Beloved and celebrated midwifery icon and Certified Professional Midwife, Ina May Gaskin, celebrated the recent publication of Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta on July 25th with an interview on the Diana Rehm Show on National Public Radio. You can listen to the interview here.
Birth Matters is published by Seven Stories Press, which offers this description: Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for
promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth, which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections, and renew confidence in a woman's a natural ability to birth.
Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species. |
