In the Way of Our Grandmothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Way of Our Grandmothers write by Debra Anne Susie. This book was released on 2009-02-01. In the Way of Our Grandmothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants, and the women they served, In the Way of Our Grandmothers tells of the midwife's trade--her principles, traditions, and skills--and of the competing medical profession's successful program to systematically destroy the practice. The rural South was one of the last strongholds of the traditional "granny" midwife. Whether she came by her trade through individual choice or inherited a practice from an older relative, a woman who accepted the "call" of midwife launched a lifelong vocation of public service. While the profession was arduous, it had numerous rewards. Midwives assumed positions of leadership within their communities, were able to define themselves and their actions on their own terms, and derived a great sense of pride and satisfaction from performing a much-loved job. Despite national statistics that placed midwives above all other attendants in low childbirth mortality, Florida's state health experts began in the early twentieth century to view the craft as a menace to public health. Efforts to regulate midwives through education and licensing were part of a long-term plan to replace them with modern medical and hospital services. Eager to demonstrate their good will and common interest, most midwives complied with the increasingly restrictive rules imposed by the state, unknowingly contributing to the demise of their own profession. The recent interest of the youthful middle class in home birth methods has been accompanied by a rediscovery of the midwife's craft. Yet the new midwifery represents the state's successful attainment of a long-awaited goal: the replacement of the traditional lay midwife with the modern nurse-midwife. In the Way of Our Grandmothers provides a voice for the few women in the South who still remember the earlier trade--one that evolved organically from the needs of women and existed outside the realms of men.
The Ways of My Grandmothers
The Ways of My Grandmothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ways of My Grandmothers write by Beverly Hungry Wolf. This book was released on 1998-10-21. The Ways of My Grandmothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young Native American woman creates a hauntingly beautiful tribute to an age-old way of life in this fascinating portrait of the women of the Blackfoot Indians. A captivating tapestry of personal and tribal history, legends and myths, and the wisdom passed down through generations of women, this extraordinary book is also a priceless record of the traditional skills and ways of an ancient culture that is vanishing all too fast. Including many rare photographs, The Ways of My Grandmothers is an authentic contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Native American lore -- and a classic that will speak to women everywhere.
Food for Our Grandmothers
Food for Our Grandmothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food for Our Grandmothers write by Joanna Kadi. This book was released on 1994. Food for Our Grandmothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thoughtful and critical, this memorable collection of essays, poems, and recipes by over forty Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists honors the courage and spirit of Arab women -- past, present, and future. Book jacket.
Our Grandmothers' Drums
Our Grandmothers' Drums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Grandmothers' Drums write by Mark Hudson. This book was released on 1989. Our Grandmothers' Drums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'West Africa. Blinding white light, dust and scrub, salt flats and mangrove swamps, a village called Dulaba in the Gambia. People are scratching a living out of rice, groundnuts, millet. At the appointed time, the women beat their grandmothers' drums and go to the bush for the circumcision rituals. No man is allowed. . . . . . . To Mark Hudson, a casual visitor, Dulaba in 1985 was a fascination; its stark landscape vivid with the presence of its women. What were their lives, bounded by Islam, by female circumcision, by the necessity to work in the fields and to obey first their mothers and then their husbands? Out of his year in Dulaba has come a wonderful book. Reading it is like watching a picture being painted. . . . . A moving, evan a majestic book' Listener
Grandmothers Counsel the World
Grandmothers Counsel the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grandmothers Counsel the World write by Carol Schaefer. This book was released on 2006-11-14. Grandmothers Counsel the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. . . . We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. In some Native American societies, tribal leaders consulted a council of grandmothers before making any major decisions that would affect the whole community. What if we consulted our wise women elders about the problems facing our global community today? This book presents the insights and guidance of thirteen indigenous grandmothers from five continents, many of whom are living legends among their own peoples. The Grandmothers offer wisdom on such timely issues as nurturing our families; cultivating physical and mental health; and confronting violence, war, and poverty. Also included are the reflections of Western women elders, including Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Carol Moseley Brown.
