Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.
Table of Contents
Is anyone out there listening? -- Mothers cut to shape -- The empty womb -- Ways in which men see women: pure and polluted -- Experimenting with motherhood -- With child -- Birth - a social act -- Birth in three cultures -- Ritual in the western way of birth -- The first encounter -- Learning to be a mother -- Working mothers -- Is there a future for motherhood?