by Sheila Kitzinger With an intimate, informative style that both enlightens and engages her readers, Sheila Kitzinger looks closely at feeling and emotions in pregnancy, the physical and spiritual experience of giving birth, and the bonds that are traditionally formed between mothers and midwives. She chronicles ideas and mythologies about birth, as well as pregnancy traditions, from a magnificent array of cultures past and present - and, with breathtaking perception and insight, explores how we can learn from them. 256 pages.