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Bits of the month

Posted in babies, breastfeeding, family, feminism, homeschooling, mothers, personal, sons, women on March 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I’m trying something new—a weekly (or monthly) wrap-up sort of post where I share bits and pieces that don’t warrant full posts and that allow me to share personal type things about homeschooling and so forth as well as just random thoughts and ideas and material for my personal memory archives. I’m inspired to do [...]

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Motherhood, Feminism, and More

Posted in family, feminism, mothers, quotes, women on February 18, 2012 | 5 Comments »

“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.“ – Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) Some time ago Molly at First the Egg did a series of posts about the book Of Woman Born. This book is an excellent feminist classic that at the [...]

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Midwifery & Feminism

Posted in feminism, maternity care, midwifery, mothers, quotes, women on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“Midwifery work is feminist work. That is to say, midwives recognize that women’s health care has been subordinated to men’s care by a historically male, physician-dominated medical industry. Midwifery values woman-centered care and puts mothers’ needs first. Though not all midwives embrace the word feminism (the term admittedly carries some baggage), I maintain that providing [...]

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Magic of Mothering

Posted in active birth, babies, birth, birth experiences, family, feminism, maternity care, mothers, Neat stuff, normal birth on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

  (The first part of this post is an excerpt from an assignment in one of the classes I’m taking) “Remember, when Keplet postulated that the moon effected the tides on earth, Galileo dismissed the hypothesis as ‘occult fancy.’ It involved action at a distance, and, therefore, violated the ‘solid laws of nature’ of that [...]

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Birth and the Women’s Health Agenda

Posted in Activism, birth, birth education, Birth Thoughts, childbirth educators, evidence based care, feminism, giving birth, Maternal health, maternity care, mothers, women on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Note: This is the post I was working on yesterday from my phone when my thumb accidentally brushed the “update” button and published it as a textless post! In the Fall issue of The Journal of Perinatal Education (Lamaze), there was a guest editorial by perinatologist Michael Klein called “Many Women and Providers are Unprepared [...]

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What Really Scares Me: Social Attitudes Towards Women

Posted in Activism, feminism, off topic, women on November 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The following items all came across my desk (top) last week and it seemed fitting to put them into one post. The first is with regard to the Boxing Federation wishing to make the female boxers box wearing skirts: That’s right, skirts. The AIBA has introduced a trial alternate uniform, asking female boxers to wear [...]

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Homeschooling & Feminism

Posted in family, feminism, homeschooling, mothers on August 12, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Though I spent my entire childhood as a homeschooler and my own children are also homeschooled, I find I rarely have the urge to write about it. Homeschooling for my own children felt like a “given” to me—I didn’t feel like doing any reading or soul-searching about making the decision, as it had been made [...]

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