Gender, Identity & Reproduction

List of Tables and Figures Prologue Notes on Contributors Introducing Gender, Identity & Reproduction; S.Earle & G.Letherby PART 1: REPRESENTING REPRODUCTION Introduction Representations of Motherhood; K.Woodward 'Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads': The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture; T.Freeman 'Battle of the Gametes': Cultural Representations of Medically Assisted Conception; G.Letherby Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading PART 2: REPRODUCTIVE ENCOUNTERS: COOPERATION AND NEGOTIATION Birth Matters: Learning From My Past - A Midwifery for the Future; B.K.Rothman 'Your Dignity is Hung up at the Door': Pakistani and White Women's Experiences of Childbirth; A.Bowes & T.M.Domokos The Quintessential Female Act?: Learning About Birth; J.Purkis Dutch Midwives: The Difference Between Image and Reality; E.van Teijlingen Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood & Identity; S.Earle Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading PART 3: REPRODUCTIVE IDENTITIES: EXCLUSION AND RESISTANCE Introduction Woe the Women: DES Mothers and Daughters; D.Davidson 'I didn't think much of his bedside manner but he was very skilled at his job': Medical Encounters in Relation to 'Infertility'; G.Letherby 'Cutting Out Motherhood': Childfree, Sterilised Women; A.Campbell Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women's Accounts of Their Experiences of Menopause; G.Wadsworth & E.Green Summary, Questions for Discussion and Further Reading Reflecting on Reproduction; S.Earle & G.Letherby