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Rutgers University Press

Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of American Midwives

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Title: Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of American Midwives
Author: Penfield Chester
ISBN: 9780813524085
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
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Social Science 1658911

Publisher Description:
Sisters on a Journey is a moving collection of twenty-seven profiles-interviews and photographs-of contemporary American midwives. These extraordinary women speak with unusual frankness about what brought them to midwifery, what they see as their greatest challenges and rewards, their recollections of their fist home births, and their thoughts about the place of midwives in the American health care system.

This book celebrates midwives from very different ethnic, religious, and ideological backgrounds-in all of their richness and diversity. Chester presents a community of voices of women who share a commitment to other women and who strive together to ensure for a practice with such a long history a successful and vibrant future.