Immaculate Deception (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Suzanne Arms
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Health and medicine
- Subjects: Doctors, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women, Medicine, Childbirth
Form and Content
Suzanne Arms, a photojournalist and mother, was motivated by her own sour experience with hospital obstetrics to research the American birth experience. She interviewed and photographed not only credentialed experts—midwives, nurses, and doctors—but also experiential experts—mothers. Based on these interviews and her research into the literature of giving birth, she wrote Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America. She presents a well-constructed argument against routing all births through the hospital, an institution...
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