Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Women and Society

[Caroline Squire]

Chapter 2. Women and Sex

[Sandy Nelson]

Chapter 3. Women, Poverty and childbirth

[Caroline Squire ]

Chapter 4. The Family

[Val Dunn-Toroosian ]

Chapter 5. ‘Race’, Ethnicity, Culture and Childbirth

[Dave Sookhoo]

Chapter 6. Refugee Women

[Caroline Squire]

Chapter 7. Domestic Violence in Pregnancy

[Sally Cottrell]

Chapter 8. Female Genital Mutilation

[Comfort Momoh]

Chapter 9. Transition to Motherhood

[Nicola Winson]

Chapter 10. Maternal-infant Attachment

[Cathy Rowan]

Chapter 11. The Medicalisation of Childbirth

[Alyson Einion]

Chapter 12. Socialisation of Midwifery

[Alyson Einion]

Chapter 13. Social Support and Childbirth

[Christine McCourt]

Chapter 14. Unhappiness after Childbirth

[Christine Grabowska]

Chapter 15. Childbirth and Sexual Abuse during Childhood

[Caroline Squire]

Chapter 16. Young Mothers

[Louise Hunter]

Chapter 17. Women in Prison

[Julie Jones]

Chapter 18. The New Reproductive Technologies: threat of opportunity?

[Marilyn Crawshaw]

Chapter 19. Fetal Surveillance

[Christine Grabowska]

Chapter 20. Breastfeeding: a natural phenomenon or a cultural construct?

[Cathryn Britton]

Chapter 21. Experiencing Disability

[Harriet Clarke]

About the Author

Caroline Squire recently retired as a senior lecturer at University of West London. She qualified as a midwife in 1981, practising in a variety of inner and outer London hospitals before qualifying as a lecturer in 1988. She has a particular interest in women’s studies and has an MSc in Medical Anthropology. She is also qualified as an Acupuncturist and Chinese medical herbalist.