To all who are interested in childbirth, you are invited to: Maternity Coalition's FORUM and LAUNCH of KERREEN REIGER'S NEW BOOK 'OUR BODIES, OUR BABIES' The Maternity Coalition in conjunction with the absolutely women's health program invites you to a forum and book launch. THE CHILDBIRTH REVOLUTION: STALLED OR STOPPED? A panel of speakers who have been active in changing childbirth in recent decades will consider what has and has not been achieved. Their lively discussion will be facilitated by Andrea Robertson of Birth International. Thursday 6 September 2001 at 5pm Committee Room First Floor Royal Women's Hospital Cardigan Street (Emergency) Entrance Carlton Following the forum you are invited to celebrate the publication of OUR BODIES, OUR BABIES: THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN'S MOVEMENT By Kerreen Reiger Published by Melbourne University Press to be launched by Rhonda Galbally of ourcommunity.com.au With the support of the Royal Women's Hospital, light refreshments will be catered for by 'Mary and Steve'. A donation to the Maternity Coalition of $10 (or $5 MC members/unwaged) is requested to defray other costs and to continue the work of making childbirth 'woman-friendly'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- * As numbers are strictly limited please RSVP by 30 August 2001 to: The Maternity Coalition PO Box 73 Brunswick South VIC 3055 Please make cheques payable (tax deductible donations) to The Maternity Coalition. Receipts will be available at the forum. Inquiries to Robin Payne tel: 9380 2863 or absolutely women's health tel: 9344 2199 ---------------------------- Please find enclosed my payment for the forum 'The Childbirth Revolution: stalled or stopped?' and the launch of Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement $5 MC member/unwaged $10 others Name _____________________________ Address ___________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ABOUT Our Bodies, Our Babies The Forgotten Women's Movement This is a wonderful book . . . read it and consider what has been won, and how much more needs to be won, in the childbirth revolution! Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York Kerreen Reiger is absolutely right to see the childbirth movement as the forgotten women's movement, and the great pleasure of this book is to find in every chapter the right questions being asked. Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne For most of the twentieth century, childbirth and the care of mothers and babies in Western countries was controlled by doctors and a hospital system headed by men. In Our Bodies, Our Babies, Kerreen Reiger traces the struggle of Australian women and others to change approaches to childbirth, to claim their right to choices in childbirth, and to educate themselves about birth and breastfeeding. She explores the movement which radically changed our maternity care practices, allowing fathers to participate in the birth of their children and babies to 'room-in' with their mothers. This absorbing story draws on interviews with mothers, midwives and doctors, and on archival material from relevant women's organisations. It shows how the childbirth and breastfeeding movements are relevant to feminism and women's rights. Much has been achieved, but Reiger sees a need for still more political action. Any woman who has given birth, and anyone who has cared for mothers and babies, will want to read this book. Dr Kerreen Reiger Director of Women's Studies School of Social Sciences La Trobe University 3086 Australia ph: 61 3 9479 1040 fax: 61 3 9479 2705 -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
