Chapter 1 Introducing Gender, Identity and Reproduction

Chapter 2 Representations of Motherhood

Chapter 3 Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads: The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture

Chapter 4 Battle of the Gametes: Cultural Representations of ‘Medically’ Assisted Conception

Chapter 5 Birth Matters: Learning from My Past — A Midwifery for the Future

Chapter 6 Your Dignity is Hung Up at the Door: Pakistani and White Women’s Experiences of Childbirth

Chapter 7 The Quintessential Female Act? Learning about Birth

Chapter 8 Dutch Midwives: The Difference between Image and Reality

Chapter 9 Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Identity

Chapter 10 Woe the Women: DES, Mothers and Daughters

Chapter 11 I didn’t Think Much of his Bedside Manner but he was very Skilled at his Job : Medical Encounters in Relation to ‘Infertility’

Chapter 13 Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women’s Accounts of their Experiences of Menopause

Chapter 14 Reflecting on Reproduction