Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Ronnie Frankenberg
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
Chapter 1. From Tradition to Modernity: Time and Childbirth in Historical Perspective
Christine McCourt and Fiona Dykes
Chapter 2. Cosmologies, Concepts and Theories: Time and Childbirth in Cross-cultural Perspective
Christine McCourt
PART II: TIME AND CHILDBIRTH PRACTICES
Chapter 3. Counting Time in Pregnancy and Labour
Soo Downe and Fiona Dykes
Chapter 4. The Progress of Labour: Orderly Chaos?
Clare Winter and Margie Duff
Chapter 5. Time and Midwifery Practice
Trudy Stevens
Chapter 6. "Waiting on Birth": Management of Time and Place in a Birth Centre
Denis Walsh
Chapter 7. Management of Time in Aboriginal and Northern Midwifery Settings
Gisela Becker
PART III: TIME AND CHILDBIRTH EXPERIENCES
Chapter 8. Narrative Time: Stories, Childbirth and Midwifery
Ólöf Ólafsdóttir and Mavis Kirkham
Chapter 9. How Long Have I Got? Time in Labour: Themes from Women's Birth Stories
Christine McCourt
Chapter 10. "Feeding All the Time": Women's Temporal Dilemmas around Breastfeeding in Hospital
Fiona Dykes
Chapter 11. Living with "Uncertainty": Women's Experience of Breastfeeding in the Current Japanese Social Context
Naoko Hashimoto
Conclusion
Notes on Contributors
Index