Della Pollock Telling Bodies, Perfo...

Della Pollock Telling Bodies, Performing Birth. of the present day York: Columbia UP, 1999 290 PP ISBN 0-231-10914-8 $4950 cloth; ISBN 0-231-10915-6 $1850 paper.

"Birth stories are everywhere and nowhere," begins Della Pollock's work We can easily see images of birth in our agriculture yet the experience of women giving birth is also simultaneously silenced from shame and secrecy. Pollock solicits to give voice to women's recollections of birthing, writing an ethnography that--like women's experiences themselves--does not quite fit into conventional forms of cultural critique.