Tag: sexism

• Netherlands Compulsory Contraception Then and Now | Baby News

  

  In the 1960s and 70s, the Danish government forced IUDs on Greenlandic women and girls against their will and they are now speaking out. This has highlighted more recent legislation in the Netherlands which effectively forced contraception on vulnerable women. Since the Compulsory Mental Health Act (Wvggz) in 2020, Dutch courts have ordered at least…

  Aradia Wyndham

  April 23, 2024

  news, Pregnancy, Rabbit Holes, Video

  addictation, anxiety, compulsory contraception, contraception, contraceptive shot, court ordered, danish, eugenics, government, greenland, IUD, mental disability, mental illness, mental-health, netherlands, sexism, unfit mother

• The Racist Origins of the Obstetrical Dilemma | Squished Pt 1

  

  So you’re an obstetrician in the early 20th century. You want to expand your practice to include all pregnancies and births, not just the high risk ones (but not those of black women, oh no!) So you gather up some sexist and racist drivel and viola! The Obstetrical Dilemma is born… and it’s killing women…

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 24, 2018

  Birth, Blog, Pregnancy

  cesarean, childbirth, fetopelvic disproportion, Jim Crow, maternal mortality, newborn, obstetrical dilemma, racism, Schultz, Scientific American, sexism, Washburn, WHO

• Infant Care in Taira, Okinawa | 1950-60’s

  

  A lot has been said about Okinawan culture in the Attachment Parenting community, let’s set the record straight: from the moms who return to work after a few months maternity leave, to the siblings and grandmothers who strap the baby to their backs as they go about their days, and the hard-knocks school of weaning.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 1, 2015

  Blog, Uncategorized

  abortion, advice, agriculture, ancestor worship, annullment, baby led weaning, baby proofing, babysitters, behavior in labor, birth control, blank slate, breastfeeding, breastfeeding position, celebrations, climate change, cloth diapers, confinement, contraceptives, cosleeping, cowlicks, crawling, crying, diaper rash, digestion, discipline, disposable diapers, elders, elimination communication, family meals, featured, food cravings, generational, gift from the gods, grandmothers, Hatsumi Maretzki, head support, high priestess, imprinting on a fetus, Japan, Japanese, labor position, mansang, maternity leave, morning sickness, moxa-cauterized, neglect, nobility, offerings, Okinawa, Okinawan, pacific, patriarchy, placenta, postpartum help, Pregnancy, rice oracles, rituals, sexism, Shuri, siblings, Six Cultures, socioeconomics, stilted house, strap carry, superstitions, swaddling, Taira, temperment, temporary name, thatch, Thomas Maretzki, typhoons, U.S. Military, urine burns, using the breast for comfort, weaning, westernization, wet nursing, working mom, WWII, yukajiru