"Authoritative knowledge" surrounding this type of event has been studied by anthropologists such as Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent.
"Authoritative knowledge" surrounding this type of event has been studied by anthropologists such as Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent. Attitudes toward it were compared in Four Cultures -- Holland, Sweden, the Yucatan, and the U.S. -- by Brigitte Jordan. Citing Dennis Werner, Marvin Harris has claimed that a society's tolerance of homosexuality is inversely related to its encouragement of this sort of event. John Whiting and Edward Burnett Tylor studied a process of imitating this type of event to garner sympathy, called couvade. Nisa witnesses one in the first chapter of Marjorie Shostak's Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung [tongue click-koong] Woman, which recounts her undergoing (*) five of them. Sheila Kitzinger advocated that de-medicalized "natural" form of it be done at home. Otto Rank wrote about the Trauma of, for 10 points, what act which can be assisted by doulas or midwives?
"Authoritative knowledge" surrounding this type of event has been studied by anthropologists such as Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent.
childbirth [or giving birth; or parturition; prompt on pregnancy; prompt on child-rearing etc.]