Women Writing Childbirth: Modern Discourses of Motherhood

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Manchester University Press, 1994 - Family & Relationships - 184 pages
In this work, the author's detailed readings of birth stories - both literary and medical - reveal deeply embedded assumptions about how women are viewed and view ourselves. The current debates about natural childbirth as advocated by Sheila Kitzinger, Grantly Read Dick and others, are examined alongside key literary works by writers such as Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon and Toni Morrison.
 

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Introduction page
1
Natural childbirth and the primitive woman
9
Institutions machines and male medicine
47
mothers and others other mothers
77
two in one one becomes two
117
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