A bun in the oven : how the food and birth movements resist industrialization / Barbara Katz Rothman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothman, Barbara Katz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lifestyles--United States.

Lifestyles.

Natural foods.

Natural childbirth.

United States.

Natural childbirth--United States.

Natural foods--United States.

Social movements--United States.

Social movements.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

vii, 253 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Summary:

There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's talk of improving birth, most births happen in large hospitals, about a third result in C-sections, and the US does not fare well in infant or maternal outcomes. In A Bun in the Oven, Barbara Katz Rothman, an internationally recognized sociologist named "midwife to the movement" by the Midwives Alliance of North America, turns her attention to the lessons to be learned from the food movement, and the parallel forces shaping both of these consumer-based social movements. The book traces the food and the birth movements from the early twentieth-century era of scientific management, to the consumerism of the postwar era and the late twentieth-century counterculture midwives and counter-cuisine cooks, to today's world of risk management in both food and birth. A Bun in the Oven brings fascinating new insight into the relationship between our most intimate, embodied, personal experiences, the industries that control them, and the social movements that resist the industrialization of life and seek to effect change. Book jacket.

Contents:

A tale of two social movements

Artisanal workers

No place like home

Living the embodied life

Two movements in three phases: an introduction

Phase one: scientific society

Phase two: consumer society

Phase three: the counterculture

The risky business of life

Great expectations: a childbirth movement for now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479855308

1479855308

9781479882304

1479882305

OCLC:

926743391