Licensure. Law. Racism. Resistance.

This isn’t a birth guide. It’s a historical reckoning.
For over a century, traditional midwives—especially Black, Indigenous, and elder women—were systematically erased from birth work through laws disguised as safety, credentialing disguised as competence, and reforms disguised as progress.

This 10-chapter e-book covers:

• The rise of obstetrics and the fall of the granny midwife

• Criminalization by credential across the U.S.

• Global midwifery bans in Sweden, South Africa, Australia, and beyond

• What actually happened in Pennsylvania’s legal gray zone

• How wealthy white families kept midwives while others were prosecuted

• The spiritual, cultural, and psychological cost of replacing stewardship with clinical protocols

• Real legal cases, public health policy, and the theology of birth as resistance

This is your midwifery history—unfiltered, unsanitized, and absolutely essential.

For midwives, doulas, students, advocates, policy nerds, and birthkeepers who know something doesn’t add up.