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"Peggy Vincent delivers babies as a home birth midwife in Berkeley in the 1980s. Each chapter tells with humor and pathos and delightful storytelling style of a significant birth experience and how she grew from student nurse at Duke University to certified midwife with her own office. Ultimately she tells of the demise of legitimate midwifery and the end of women's choice of a safe home birth."
Dawn, Resident Scholar
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Plot
job/profession:
- doctor/nurse
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Book makes you feel?
- in awe
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- slapstick
- sarcastic/sardonic
- gentle
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- touching of anatomy
- impregnation/reproduction
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- lesbians!
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- love/sex
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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