![]() Yes, let’s start with Rachel Reed’s Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage, the first book on your list. Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom with Modern Knowledge She has a really nice approach to the process as something quite transformational and fundamental in terms of what it can bring to a woman’s life. Rachel Reed’s book -because she is a midwife-deals most closely with the kinds of nuts and bolts of pregnancy and labour and birth. But since researching my most recent book, Womb, it’s become clear to me how important it is to have a much broader view of pregnancy and birth within a social context, and within the context of reproductive justice, and also to think creatively about how childbirth is written about in other formats. I did think as I was compiling this list that there are different ways I could have gone about it, and it might have been easier in a way to come up with a list that was very narrowly focused on pregnancy and birth: the process of it, and advice around it. There’s great range in this list did you have a guiding principle in mind when selecting your recommended books? ![]() The books you’ve chosen interpret childbirth in the broadest sense. ![]() Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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