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Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption

4 reviews
Barbara Katz Rothman

Beacon Press, 2006

Essential Reading for Transracial Adoptions
As a recent adoptive (white) parent of an African-American infant girl, I found Barbara Katz Rothman's book, Weaving a Family, to be a godsend. In down-to-earth prose, but with the incisive thinking of the sociologist that she is, Katz Rothman takes a bold look at the complexities underlying her own transracial adoption (of her now-15-year-old daughter, Victoria, whom she adopted as an infant) ...

Bioethical Issues, Sociological Perspectives, Volume 9 (Advances in Medical Sociology) (Advances in Medical ...

JAI Press, 2007

This volume deals with the topic of health inequalities and health disparities. The volume is divided into five sections. The first section includes an introductory look at the issue of health care inequalities and disparities and also an introduction to the volume. One of the backdrops to this topic in the United States was The National Healthcare Disparities Report and its focus on the ability of Americans to access health care and variation ...

Recreating Motherhood

1 review
Barbara Katz Rothman

Rutgers University Press, 2000

Father Technology Doesn't Know Best
Barbara Katz Rothman provides a riveting discussion of the moral, ethical and social implications of reproductive technology. But it saddens me that she -- like so many educated women -- seems to accept the idea that Father Technology -- in the form of the medical/pharmaceutical industry -- offers the only possible solution to infertility, aside from adoption. Must it be either/or? Female ...

The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Human Gene Study

4 reviews
Barbara Katz Rothman

Beacon Press, 2001

powerful critique of science of genetics
This book helps us better understand the limits of genetic research and testing, and the dangers of believing that this magic new bullet will solve a host of social and medical "problems". For women especially, this book is must reading.

The Tentative Pregnancy: Amniocentesis and the Sexual Politics of Motherhood

3 reviews
Barbara Katz Rothman

Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List, 1994

Amniocentesis . . . The Road To Abortion
While not exactly what I expected I found this book to be rather eye opening. The premise of the author, while she wrote about 100 or so women she interviewed, was that amniocentesis is a test that, if the results are bad, leads to abortion. In other words, this test gives women the opportunity to selectively abort children who are seen as otherwise imperfect in today's society. Whether or ...

The Worth of Women's Work - First Edition (A Qualitative Synthesis)
MARY ROMERO, EVELYN NAKANO GLENN, ...

SUNY Press; Albany, NY, 1988

Contents: ixi. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS 1. Women's Approach to Work: The Creation of Knowledge... 2. The Integration Work: A Second-order Analysis of Qualitative Research... ii. DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY? THE CARETAKER ROLE 3. Social Policy and Everyday Life in Nursing Homes: A Critical Ethnography... 4. A Belated Industry Revisited: Domestic Service among Japanese-American Women... 5. Day Work in the Suburbs: The Work Experience of Chicana ...

In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace

1 review
Barbara Katz Rothman

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1991

a sociological view of childbirth
This book is must-reading for those interested in feminist issues pertaining to women's health in general and childbirth in particular. This book is pro-midwive, pro-natural birth, and pro-consumerism. A most interesting history of maternity care is included. If you've every wondered how we got so far away from natural birth, this book is for you.

Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States (Perspectives on Gender)
Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, ...

Routledge, 2006

Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization ? best seen in a cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent ? and a rhetoric of women's "choices" and "the natural," women and their midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses labor on. Laboring On offers the voices of all of these practitioners, all women trying ...

Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives

Oryx Press, 1992

Childbearing is more than pregnancy and labor. It is the having and not having of children. It is a profound event in the lives of families-and in the lives and bodies of women. The feminist movement and the development of feminist studies have helped to rehumanize the subject of childbearing by removing it from the remote environment of institutionalized medicine. The multi-disciplinary Encyclopedia of Childbearing is a major contribution to ...

The Encyclopedia of Childbearing/a Guide to Prenatal Practices, Birth Alternatives, Infant Care, and ...

1 review
Barbara Katz Rothman

Henry Holt & Co (P), 1994

Something for everyone - pregnant or not
Though several years old now (1993), this book is still full of valid, easy-to-read information about every possible aspect of pregnancy. It is set up in such a way that if you are looking just for info on a specific subject, you can turn right to it. There is alot of info here that you will not find anywhere else, like why patterned breathing is not necessarily the best way to breathe during ...

On making mistakes: whom do you trust?(Talking About Abortion): An article from: Conscience
Barbara Katz Rothman

Catholics for a Free Choice, 2004

This digital document is an article from Conscience, published by Catholics for a Free Choice on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 635 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: On making mistakes: whom do you ...

Not all that glitters is gold. (Genetic Grammar: 'Health,' 'Illness,' and the Human Genome Project): An ...
Barbara Katz Rothman

Hastings Center, 1992

This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on July 1, 1992. The length of the article is 4369 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Not all that glitters is gold. (Genetic ...

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement.(Brief Article)(Book Review): An article from: Women's ...
Barbara Katz Rothman

National Women's Health Network, 2004

This digital document is an article from Women's Health Activist, published by National Women's Health Network on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 322 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Women of Color and the ...

Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature (Health, Society, and Policy)
Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman

Temple University Press, 1992

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