our culture sees women’s bodies as faulty machines, but there are other birthing possibilities
- Written by Holly High, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Deakin University
I did not think particularly deeply about birth until the prospect of my own labour was on the horizon. I asked my grandmother, then in her eighties, what to expect.
It was a family gathering in June 2013. We were sitting side-by-side at the long, polished dining table that fills almost the entire dining room of a wooden farmhouse outside a town in...
