Women's Sexual Passages: Finding Pleasure and Intimacy at Every Stage of Life
A midwife for over 20 years and author of Hearts and Hands: A  Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, Davis intermixes medical  and scientific information about life-cycle phases and changes  with client comments, responses from interviews, referrals to  herbs and holistic remedies, descriptions of women's rituals  (some quite inspiring), and freehand New Age-feminist-utopian  generalizations about women's connections with nature and  mysticism. Her physiological and medical data seem mostly  accurate, and she is a rarity in acknowledging and celebrating  the sexual aspects of birth and nursing. However, her  juxtaposition of facts with speculations and opinions confuses  the reader. Too wide a range of information is presented without  enough references or qualifications. Useful for women's health  collections, this synthesis would have been considerably  improved by a bibliography and resource list. Martha Cornog,  PhiladelphiaCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.