Birthing fathers : the transformation of men in American rites of birth /
In the past two decades, men have gone from being excluded from the delivery room to being admitted, then invited, and, finally, expected to participate actively in the birth of their children. No longer mere observers, fathers attend baby showers, go to birthing classes, and share in the intimate,...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press
©2005.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj64k |
Table of Contents:
- American fathers and hospital childbirth
- Couvade in society and history
- Standing vigil: fathers in the waiting room, 1920-1970
- Birthing revolution: men to the barricades
- Birthing classes: training men to birth
- Men's experience of birth
- Fathers, birth, and society.