Gender, Identity & Reproduction: Social Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introducing Gender, Identity and Reproduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-17
Representations of Motherhood....Pages 18-32
Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads: The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture....Pages 33-49
Battle of the Gametes: Cultural Representations of ‘Medically’ Assisted Conception....Pages 50-65
Front Matter....Pages 69-73
Birth Matters: Learning from My Past — A Midwifery for the Future....Pages 74-86
Your Dignity is Hung Up at the Door: Pakistani and White Women’s Experiences of Childbirth....Pages 87-102
The Quintessential Female Act? Learning about Birth....Pages 103-119
Dutch Midwives: The Difference between Image and Reality....Pages 120-134
Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Identity....Pages 135-150
Front Matter....Pages 155-159
Woe the Women: DES, Mothers and Daughters....Pages 160-173
I didn’t Think Much of his Bedside Manner but he was very Skilled at his Job: Medical Encounters in Relation to ‘Infertility’....Pages 174-190
Cutting Out Motherhood: Childfree Sterilized Women....Pages 191-204
Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women’s Accounts of their Experiences of Menopause....Pages 205-221
Reflecting on Reproduction....Pages 225-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-236