Bloody footprints : learning to be with woman

Process and content dictate the layout of this work. I have chosen purposefully to let the\nvoices of the Footprints Collective midwives speak first. Just as midwifery is about being\nwith woman, so research into midwifery needs to reflect a 'with woman' subject position.\nTo remain congruent with both midwifery and with feminist poststructuralist work,\ntherefore, the chapters 'Midwives speak...' and 'Midwives stay silent...' come before the\nchapter, 'Hearing voices'. 'Hearing voices' is not a chapter which is designed solely to\ndescribe the research methodology. Its intent is to underpin the work of the thesis and\ntherefore the chapter includes a discussion of the relatedness between the…