Pregnancy Birth and Maternity Care

Contributors Foreword: Sheila C Hunt Preface 1.Introducing Feminism (Tara Kaufmann) 2.Gender and Sexuality (Ann Cronin) 3.Feminisms and the Body (Mary Stewart) 4.Pregnancy (Liz Stephens) 5.Feminism and Intrapartum Care: A Quest for Holistic Birth (Denis Walsh) 6.Transition to motherhood: from the woman's perspective (Sally Marchant) 7.Feminism and breastfeeding (Gabrielle Palmer) 8.Depression in the Post Natal Period: A normal response to motherhood (Jane M Ussher) 9.Midwifery Practice: ways of working (Carol Bates) 10.Feminist Approach to Midwifery Education (Lorna Davies) 11.Feminism and Ways of Knowing (Sara Wickham) 12.Midwifery partnership with women in Aotearoa/ New Zealand: a poststructuralist feminist perspective on the use of epidurals in 'normal' birth (Ruth Surtees) 13.Journey to midwifery through feminism: a personal account (Nicky Leap)