Updated October 2017 -
Journal of American Culture, Book Review, Summer 2017
The Journal of American Culture review can be read here.
North American Dialogue, Book Review, Summer 2017
The North American Dialogue review can be read here.
The Cresset, "An Order for Delivery," Summer 2017
The Cresset review can be read here.
Patheos, "Birth and Eating as Resistance Movements", Jan 30, 2017
The Patheos review can be read here.
(Update: A longer version can be read in The Cresset link above)
Feminist Collections, "Ovens & Ovaries: Reclaiming Food & Birth in a Capitalist Society", Fall 2016
The Feminist Collections review can be read here.
Times Literary Supplement, Sept 9, 2016:
This review does make me want to read the Ramaswamy book, and oh, what an interesting idea, maybe I should write a book about birth...
TLS review can be read here.
Huffington Post, August 29, 2016:
A review of BUN by Fabio Parasecoli, Associate professor and director of Food Studies Initiatives, New School - NY can be read here.
PsycCRITIQUES, American Psychological Association, July 11, 2016
The PsycCRITIQUES review can be read here.
Times Higher Education, July 4, 2016
"A sociologist in the world of midwifery is introduced to food studies, and spots parallels everywhere with the world of birth. Her wittily named study ranges insightfully from Julia Child to natural childbirth, and from Lamaze and Pavlov to labour times, Cesareans and kale chips as she considers how 'birth and food, once so profoundly part of women's world of production, ultimately came to be acts of consumption,.. framed inside a big machine, an industrialized, medicalized, and capitalist system'".
(Can be read here)