Safe in a Midwifes Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South Holmes Linda Janet
Safe in a Midwifes Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South Holmes Linda Janet A Ms. Safe in a Midwife's Hands brings together what Holmes has gleaned from the countless midwives…
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Safe in a Midwifes Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South Holmes Linda Janet
A Ms. Safe in a Midwife's Hands brings together what Holmes has gleaned from the countless midwives who have shared with her their experiences, at a time when their knowledge and holistic approaches are essential counterbalances to a medical system that routinely fails Black mothers and babies. Magazine "Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2023"After a less-than-positive experience giving birth as a Black woman in the 1970s, Linda Janet Holmes launched a lifetime of work as an activist dedicated to learning about and honoring alternative birth traditions and the Black women behind them.
In detailing their work, from massage to the uses of medicinal plants to naming Building on work she began in the 1980s, when she interviewed traditional Black midwives in Alabama and Virginia, Holmes traveled to Ghana, Ethiopia, and Kenya to visit midwives there.