{"product_id":"desert-birthright-lori-wrankle-9781647692483","title":"Desert Birthright: A Midwife's Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe coming-of-age memoir of a homebirth midwife in the Southwest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lori Wrankle was sixteen when she helped deliver her first baby. \"I witnessed the entire universe unfold at my feet,\" she writes in \u003ci\u003eDesert Birthright\u003c\/i\u003e. Later, working as a hospital doula, Wrankle observed firsthand the suffering inflicted upon birthing women by male-dominated Western childbirth practices, from casual racism to unnecessary and nonconsensual procedures, including the dreaded \"husband stitch.\" After a traumatic labor and delivery of her own, she decided to take back woman-centered childbirth and start a homebirth midwifery practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesert Birthright\u003c\/i\u003e traverses twenty-five years of midwifery, often in fundamentalist polygamist circles, weaving together birth stories with childhood memories as Wrankle grapples with her shifting Mormon faith. Her poetic voice shines--a placenta becomes the tree of life, the folds in a baby's arm layers of sand in the desert. \u003ci\u003eDesert Birthright\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal story of life, death, and modern womanhood in the rural Southwest, and of one midwife's journey of faith, self-discovery, and liberation in the face of adversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lori Wrankle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647692482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647692483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Utah Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Lori Wrankle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46974629937407,"sku":"9781647692483","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ae6c972b-c7c2-4868-9796-e9c468a701d5.jpg?v=1750875593","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/desert-birthright-lori-wrankle-9781647692483","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}