Table of contents for Birthing Fathers: The Transformation of Men in American Rites of Birth by Richard K. Reed

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: American Fathers and Hospital Childbirth

Chapter 2: Couvade in Society and History

Chapter 3: Standing Vigil: Fathers in the Waiting Room, 1920–1970

Chapter 4: Birthing Revolution: Men to the Barricades

Chapter 5: Birthing Classes: Training Men to Birth

Chapter 6: Men’s Experience of Birth

Chapter 7: Fathers, Birth, and Society

Notes

Bibliography

Index