Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health

SECTION 1: MOTHERS, MIDWIVES AND DIRT - PAST AND PRESENTChapter 1: Birth dirt - Helen Callaghan, Clinical Nurse/Midwife, Nambour General Hospital, AustraliaChapter 2: A clean front passage: dirt, douches and disinfectants at St Helens Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand, 1907-1922 - Pamela J. Wood, Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Maralyn Foureur, Clinical Professor of Midwifery, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandChapter 3: The thanksgiving of women after childbirth: a blessing in disguise? - Rachel C. Newell, former Lecturer in Midwifery, University of DundeeChapter 4: Pollution: midwives defiling South Asian women - Kuldip Bharj, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Leeds, UKChapter 5: Drained and dumped on: the generation and accumulation of emotional toxic waste in community midwifery - Ruth Deery, Reader in Midwifery, University of Huddersfield and Mavis Kirkham, Professor of Midwifery, University of SheffieldSECTION 2: BREASTFEEDING AS POLLUTIONChapter 6: Resisting the gaze: the subversive nature of breastfeeding - Fiona Dykes, Reader in Maternal and Infant Health, University of Central LancashireChapter 7: Not in public please: breastfeeding as dirty work in the UK- Susan Battersby, independent midwifery researcher/lecturerChapter 8: 'Milk for Africa' and 'the neighbourhood' but socially isolated - Cheryl Benn, Associate Professor, Massey University, New Zealand and Suzanne Phibbs, Lecturer, Massey University, New ZealandChapter 9: Breastfeeding - a time for caution for Gujarati families- Alison Spiro, Health Visitor, Harrow PCT, UKChapter 10: The pollution of objective scientific practice by anecdotal stories of personal, vicarious or cultural experience: the denial of embodied knowledge OR The pollution of practice by tales from outside: evidence for the denial of embodied understandings of feeding babies in the initial and ongoing learning of health professionals - Mary Smale, Breastfeeding Counsellor and Tutor, National Childbirth TrustSECTION 3: THE DAISChapter 11: Understanding 'narak': rethinking pollution: an interpretation of data from dais in north India - Janet Chawla, Director, MATRIKA, IndiaChapter 12: Listening to dais speak about the work in Gujarat, India - Subadhra Rai, Associate Professor, Laurentian University, CanadaChapter 13: Shame, honour and pollution for Pakistani women - Margaret Chesney, Director of Midwifery Education, University of SalfordSECTION 4: LEAKAGE AND LABELLINGChapter 14: Gynaecology nursing: dirty work, women's work - Sharon C. Bolton, Director, MA Human Resource and Knowledge Management Programme, Lancaster University, UKChapter 15: Containing the 'leaky' body: female urinary incontinence and formal health care - Joanne Jordan, Lecturer, Queen's University, BelfastChapter 16: Older women and early miscarriage: leaky bodies and boundaries - Julia Frost, Research Fellow, University of Plymouth, UKChapter 17: Sexually transmitted infections and dirt - Hilary Piercy, Lecturer in Nursing, University of SheffieldChapter 18: Genetic traits as pollution: 'White English' carriers of sickle cell or thalassaemia - Simon Dyson, Reader, De Montfort University, Leicester, UKChapter 19: Women out of place - Mavis Kirkham, Professor of Midwifery, University of Sheffield