Rodit jako feministka - Tvoje tělo, tvoje dítě, tvoje volba – Hill Milli (2025)

Motherhood and childbirth are fundamentally feminist topics. In her uncompromising and brilliant book, Milli Hill focuses on supporting women's autonomy and strength. Her enthusiasm and confidence in a woman's ability to give birth are contagious. So is her outrage at injustice and obstetric violence. Through hundreds of personal experiences from women, dozens of expert texts, and the experiences of healthcare professionals, she seeks answers to how childbirth can be a positive experience for women. She shows that for a woman to leave childbirth empowered, she does not need it to be easy, painless, or natural, but she needs it to be under her control. It must be she who decides about her body and the birth of her child.

The author supports her views and insights with research studies, expert articles, and the practice of healthcare professionals accompanying women during childbirth, confirming that what benefits the woman also benefits the child. Hill exposes the biases and false assumptions we have created about childbirth and where they have led us. She also shows how to change that. If not in our births, then in the births of our daughters and daughters-in-law. It is not always pleasant reading, but it is certainly inspiring. Giving birth as a feminist means giving birth by your own rules. Because it is...