Front cover of the Herstory of NZ Homebirth Association book
Front cover of the Herstory of NZ Homebirth Association book
Inside pages of the Herstory of NZ Homebirth Association book
Table of Contents and Introduction of the Herstory of NZ Homebirth Association book

Herstory of N.Z. Homebirth Association

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This Herstory is not only a record of this struggle, it is also to pay tribute to those, mainly women, who challenged a superior and well entrenched force.

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Authors / Contributors: Joan Donley, New Zealand Home Birth Association, Linda McKay, Elinor McEwen, Jackie Tyrrell, Marjet Pot
Published: 1992
Formats: Paperback
Language: English
SKU: BOOK-HERSTORY Category: Tags: , , , ,

Product Description

The wonder of the home birth movement is that such a comparatively small group of busy parents managed to effect such major and fundamental changes in the maternity services in such a short space of time – first in the moderation of attitudes and practices of the health professionals and eventually in the status of midwives.

This Herstory is not only a record of this struggle, it is also to pay tribute to those, mainly women, who challenged a superior and well entrenched force. Amidst breast feeding babies, coping with toddlers, cooking meals, washing nappies they attended meetings and seminars, planned strategies, wrote letters and submission among the crumbs on the kitchen table, churned out newsletters on ancient gestetners, lobbied MPs and became a politically strong ‘vociferous minority’.

Content:

  1. An Idea Whose Time Had Come
  2. Winds of Change
  3. New Zealand Homebirth Association is Born
  4. Selfish Mothers
  5. Hard Labour, Painful Transition Gentle Birth
  6. 1983 and All That
  7. Growth and Development
  8. Is a DM Worth Her Fee
  9. Consumer Action
  10. Accountability
  11. Biculturalism
  12. Conflict in Northland
  13. Rutherford was Born at Home
  14. Statistics 1974-1990
    Christchurch Home Birth Association
    Gisbourne Home Birth Association
    Abbreviations