Titlebook: Birthing Work; The Collective Labou Katharine McKinnon Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license t

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Introduction: Assembling Birth,involved in childbirth could provide a pathway to exit the birth wars, and a way to rethink care-work more generally. The so-called ‘birth wars’ have created a maternity care context immersed in highly charged, moralistic and competitive debates about what is the ‘right’ way to have a baby. In this

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Becoming Mothers Alongside a Roomful of Things,th as actors that produce (un)certain outcomes. The bed is caught up in a set of productive relationships, sharing a role in the birth space with the decision-making, thinking woman. Sitting in the centre of most birth wards, the bed calls a woman to lie down upon it, and this call may be welcomed o

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Doctoring with Bureaucracy,edictable circumstances of giving birth. The policies themselves, and the legal advisors and actuaries who inform policy, the bureaucrats who formalise them, and the managers who police them, are all invisible but powerful presences in the birth space. Their presence can be a challenge for obstetric

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Loving Technologies,G) that has come to be relied upon as an indication of the baby’s wellbeing. The medical technologies of modern obstetrics are often assumed to be allied with practices of ‘medical birth’, that is, birthing care focused on: providing a ‘safe’ birth that avoids unnecessary ‘risks’, close monitoring o

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