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Your search for: birthing AND customs


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Books on: birthing customs

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    Scottish Customs
    Book by Sheila Livingstone; Birlinn, 2000
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    Collections: History, Entire Library

    ...with a changeling. Several customs kept the fairies away, at the...The Moment of Birth The birthing was called the 'cryin' and...witchcraft. There were many customs regarded as vital for the health...was exchanged a variety of customs could be tried to reclaim the...
     
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    Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel
    Book by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh; University of California Press, 2004
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    Collections: Entire Library

    ""Birthing the Nation provides the first serious and comprehensive treatment of an issue full of intense meaning. Kanaaneh sets her unique study against a backdrop of Israeli political arithmetic, Palestinian subordination, nationalism, gender culture, globalization and modernity. Women's bodies and ...
     
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    A Time to Be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth
    Book by Michele Klein; Jewish Publication Society, 1998
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    Psychologist Michele Klein's book, unlike any other book on childbirth, drawers on prayers, folktales, folk remedies, Jewish mystical literature and many historical and religious documents to explore childbirth in a Jewish context. Expecting parents, grandparents, Jewish community workers, even ...
     
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    Hmong Women and Reproduction
    Book by Pranee Liamputtong Rice; Bergin & Garvey, 2000
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    Collections: History, Entire Library

    Despite the fact that there are many Hmong living in the West (especially in the U.S., France, and Australia), their voices are generally not heard. This is particularly true for Hmong women. Health and welfare professionals complain that there is a lack of knowledge about Hmong women's lives ...
     
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    A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
    Book by Nancy Rose Hunt; Duke University Press, 1999
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    A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalised in Africa. Rejecting the "colonial encounter" paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to ...
     

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Journal Articles on: birthing customs

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Magazine Articles on: birthing customs

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Newspaper Articles on: birthing customs

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    Fence Post
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 19, 2007

    ...appropriate to write a story asking why Chicago Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who should have sent her packing shortly...abortions and what percentage is spent on pregnancy prevention, birthing advice (pre-natal, early childhood care, adoption and the rest...
     


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