Gender neutral language in childbirth and the maternity care system may feel “polite,” but harms women.
Tag: reproduction
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Dr. Jen Gunter about common myths surrounding women’s bodies and her new book, The Vagina Bible.
Breastfeeding is an issue that affects mothers and their children — there is no need for gender neutral language.
Try as we might to escape the confines of our sex, our female bodies won’t allow it.
How did we get to the point where this reduction of women to bodies is accepted and even celebrated — not only among many men but also many women, even among some feminists?
In two new books, Heather Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore question the ideologies and practices that promote medical/technological “solutions” to gender, and Renate Klein analyzes the surrogacy industry as a form of exploitation of women and trafficking in babies.
Feminism! A movement by women, for women. Or is it something about… Equality…? For… People? Depends on who you ask. According to a recent article at Bustle, it’s all pretty hard to…
New mother? Feeling stressed or challenged due to the fact that you grew then expelled a human being out of your body and now have to take care of it day and…
Despite the fact that women have been breastfeeding, quite literally, for all of human existence, there is still stigma and judgement around how women feed their babies. Beyond that, the formula industry…
Who gives birth? The answer used to be: females. Today, it’s considered politically incorrect to say that it is women, specifically, who get pregnant and become mothers. Thus, in the name of…
Women. They all just can’t wait for a man to “put a ring on it” and commit to starting a family. But men… Men have such a hard time letting go of…
In this episode we continue to explore the natural birth movement and the debate around medicalized birth vs so-called “natural birth.” On the last show I spoke with Ness Fraser, a doula…
In this episode we explore the debate around “natural birth” vs. “medicalized birth” — an issue that has been quite controversial among women, feminists, and, more generally, society as a whole. But…
There’s something pornographic about the way we depict childbirth. A woman’s agony becomes either the brunt of a joke, or else it is discussed as an awesome spiritual experience. One of the…