Midwifery Matters Spring 2022 Issue 172
Contents
Features
Editor’s Interview – Dr. Sara Wickham
Guest editor Lynn Genevieve
Why Mandating Vaccines is Wrong for
Midwives and Everyone
Nicky Grace
Vaccine Mandate
Rhia Lawrence
Biological Nurturing: Reclaiming our
breastfeeding instincts
Dr. Suzanne Colson
The Witch Trials, midwives and the battle for
the body
Anna Ziggy Melamed
Creative
Peach
Lucy Buddingwood
I was there with woman
Lynn R S Genevieve
Reviews
Review article – The Womb-emptying Society
by Irene Garzón
Nicky Grace
Cwen by Alice Albinia
Lynn R S Genevieve
Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and
the Transgender Craze by Abigail Shrier
Deborah Hughes
Discussion
What are the challenges facing asylum
seeking and refugee women to accessing
appropriate maternity care in the UK?
Thea Riley
Tell Women the Truth!
Caroline Flint
Campaigning for physiology-informed
maternity services: where shall we start?
Jo Dagustun, AIMS
ARM Matters
National Coordinator’s Report – Power and
Hierarchy in the Association of Radical
Midwives
Katherine Hales
Women on the Wall – The Glasgow Women’s
Library
Dear ARM… – Letters from members
Our Friends from Afghanistan
UK Afghan Midwives Support Group
The Virtual International Day of the Midwife
e-Conference
Linda Wylie