Birth Rites and Rights: Chicana Women Reclaiming Birthing

Download or read book Birth Rites and Rights: Chicana Women Reclaiming Birthing written by Diana Gloria Lopez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In industrialized society, the birthing process has changed more in the past one-hundred years than in the past one-hundred-thousand years. This research examines the association between racial politics and the ways it influences reproductive politics. It exposes the birthing medical industrial complex in the US that has resulted in a devastating loss of communal ownership over birth for women of color. This thesis chronicles the struggles and triumphs of twelve Chicana women as they choose to remove themselves from the hospital setting and begin to give birth at home.