Ina May Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.
Discusses the way in which women become mothers as a women's rights issue, providing a spirited manifesto for trusting women, valuing childbirth and reconciling modern life with this age-old process.