Category Archives: death/mortality

links for thought, November/December 2012

If you didn’t see it waaaay back at the end of November, click through to Andie Fox’s Daily Life article “Meticulous Bohemia” I might not be able to make hommus but I can churn out a batch of cynicism instantly. I never embraced the ‘earth mother’ identity because I was too busy holding on to [...]

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Ina May Gaskin’s Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta

Our Goodreads discussion group chose Ina May Gaskin’s new book Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta as our August read. In late July, I found myself pretty far down on the waitlist for the single copy my public library system had purchased. So I was happy when Gaskin’s publisher offered to send me a copy for review. [...]

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Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: thought-provoking passages (1 of 3)

from Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Norton (NY), 1976: Meanwhile, the potential sources of [childbed fever] went unexplored, and women continued to die–not from giving birth but from acute streptococcal infection of the uterus, in no way inevitably linked with the birth-process. It killed one Mary Wollstonecraft, of whom we know, [...]

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