SOCY 384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sperm Bank, Human Penis Size
6 Dec 2017
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Get me out: a history of childbirth from the garden of eden to the sperm bank . Moves from childbirth being perceived as a spiritual journey to more of a medical procedure. It is always important to identify the authors positionally (this author is a medical doctor for example) so his point of view takes on a certain tone. Chapter begins with a discusion of eve (lacking the bombardment of wisdom that often surrounds pregnant women today) Men weren"t allowed in the delivery room, but it was men that wrote the guidebooks on pregnancy. Access to various capitals makes a difference. How much money u have or ur prestige (especially in the states) limits ur access to reproductive technologies. In the rst millennia women relied on the same knowledge they always had (often the people writing about pregnancy or reproduction, was monks (who arguably had the least experience i. e chased males.
