Author and advocate for women’s freedom of choice in childbirth campaigned on range of issues including female genital mutilation
The anthropologist and childbirth expert Sheila Kitzinger has died aged 86. Kitzinger was a prolific author of books for parents-to-be and came to be known as the “high priestess of natural childbirth”. She was an early leader of the natural childbirth movement and sought to shift the focus on to the mother during pregnancy and birth.
But her eldest daughter Celia Kitzinger said her mother was “so much more than a ‘natural birth guru’”; she had campaigned on issues including an end to female genital mutilation.
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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/12/childbirth-expert-and-campaigner-sheila-kitzinger-dies-aged-86
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