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In 'exploring The Dirty Side Of Women's Health', A Team Of International Contributors Examine Bodies, Leakage And Boundaries, Illuminating The Contradictions And Dilemmas In Women's Healthcare. Sect. 1. Mothers, Midwives And Dirt - Past And Present -- 1. Birth Dirt / Helen Callaghan -- 2. Clean Front Passage: Dirt, Douches And Disinfectants At St. Helens Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand, 1907-1922 / Pamela J. Wood And Maralyn Foureur -- 3. Thanksgiving Of Women After Childbirth: A Blessing In Disguise? / Rachel C. Newell -- 4. Pollution: Midwives Defiling South Asian Women / Kuldip Bharj -- 5. Drained And Dumped On: The Generation And Accumulation Of Emotional Toxic Waste In Community Midwifery / Ruth Deery And Mavis Kirkham -- Sect. 2. Breastfeeding As Pollution -- 6. Resisting The Gaze: The Subversive Nature Of Breastfeeding / Fiona Dykes -- 7. Not In Public Please: Breastfeeding As Dirty Work In The Uk / Susan Battersby -- 8. 'milk For Africa' And 'the Neighbourhood' But Socially Isolated / Cheryl Benn And Suzanne Phibbs -- 9. Breastfeeding - A Time For Caution For Gujarati Families / Alison Spiro -- 10. 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 -- Sect. 3. Dais -- 11. Understanding 'narak': Rethinking Pollution: An Interpretation Of Data From Dais In North India / Janet Chawla -- 12. Listening To Dais Speak About Their Work In Gujarat, India / Subadhra Rai -- 13. Shame, Honour And Pollution For Pakistani Women / Margaret Chesney -- Sect. 4. Leakage And Labelling -- 14. Gynaecology Nursing: Dirty Work, Women's Work / Sharon C. Bolton -- 15. Containing The 'leaky' Body: Female Urinary Incontinence And Formal Health Care / Joanne Jordan -- 16. Older Women And Early Miscarriage: Leaky Bodies And Boundaries / Julia Frost -- 17. Sexually Transmitted Infections And Dirt / Hilary Piercy -- 18. Genetic Traits As Pollution: 'white English' Carriers Of Sickle Cell Or Thalassaemia / Simon Dyson -- 19. Women Out Of Place / Mavis Kirkham. Edited By Mavis Kirkham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.