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Image one: E-book titled A History of Midwifery in the United States: The Midwife Said Fear Not (2016) - synopsis: Written by two of the profession's most prominent midwifery leaders, this authoritative history of midwifery in the United States, from the 1600s to the present, is distinguished by its vast breadth and depth. The book spans the historical evolution of midwives as respected, autonomous health care workers and midwifery as a profession, and considers the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities for this discipline as enduring motifs throughout the text.
Image two: E-book titled Woman-priest: Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church (2020) - synopsis: While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Woman-priests (RCWP) looks to reframe and reform Roman Catholic priesthood, starting with ordained women. Woman-priest is the first academic study of the RCWP movement. As an ethnography, Woman-priest analyzes the women-priests’ actions and lived theologies in order to explore ongoing tensions in Roman Catholicism around gender and sexuality, priestly authority, and religious change.
