Today, nearly one in three women delivers via cesarean section, making c-section the most common surgery performed in the U. And yet, women who deliver surgically have higher rates of risk, a longer period of recovery, and a bigger hospital bill. But I do wonder if there is some small sociological seam that has, as of yet, remained largely unexplored? The question to which I keep returning is: Does growing up in our culture somehow prime women for surgical delivery? Do those early, fraught, body experiences is it alarming that half of normal weight teenage girls see themselves as fat? Does growing up in our society mean that a woman comes to know her body as a nemesis, a foe? And does any of this body anxiety follow women into the delivery room to contour their experience of childbirth?
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Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Story highlights Author Naomi Wolf says recent controversies reveal biased views toward women's bodies The Pussy Riot trial and Arab Spring protests showed women stripped of autonomy Women's bodies are battlegrounds used to wage culture wars, Wolf says It's scandalous when women take ownership of their own bodies, Wolf contends. It seems as if we are in a time of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of women's bodies and sexuality. Controversy is swirling about an American University professor who breast-fed a baby in class ; topless photos of Kate Middleton have been released ; and a Time magazine cover showing a mother breast-feeding her toddler sparked even more tittering in May. It is not just the breast that is contested: Pussy Riot, the punk band, was sentenced to two years in a Russian prison after a staged performance in which they did high kicks that showed too much of their bodies. They tried, from prison, to explain "what pussy meant" and "what riot meant.
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