Ever Since Eve: Personal Reflections on Childbirth by Nancy Caldwell Sorel

Ever Since Eve:  Personal Reflections on Childbirth by Nancy Caldwell Sorelis a 388-page hardcover published by Oxford University Press, 1984.  The dust jacket and book are in very good condition.   Book Summary "What's it like?" From time immemorial, younger women have been asking older women this question about the birth experience.  Here at last is a book that brings together the reactions of a wide array of women--rich and poor, famous and not-so-famous, contemporary and historic, American and European and even Eskimo.  Whether told in their own words or vividly recounted by Nancy Sorel, the stories in this book--some funny, some poignant, some tragic---explain in human terms as no clinical description in the standard childbirth texts can what the experience of having a baby is really like. Ranging from Sophia Loren to Queen Victoria, from Colette to Elzire Dionne, the book shows how childbirth is a process which is unique in each instance, even while it is essentially the same for