Background
KITZINGER, Sheila Helena Elizabeth was born on March 29, 1929. Daughter of Alex Webster and Clare Webster.
author social anthropologist and birth educator
KITZINGER, Sheila Helena Elizabeth was born on March 29, 1929. Daughter of Alex Webster and Clare Webster.
Bishop Fox’s Girls’ School, Taunton, Ruskin College, and St. Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Assistant Department, of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh 1952-1953. Course Team Chairman Open University 1981-1983. President Oxfordshire Branch, Royal College, of Midwives.
The Experience of Childbirth 1962, Giving Birth 1971, Education and Counselling for Childbirth 1977, Women as Mothers 1978, The Place of Birth (editor with John Davis) 1978, Birth at Home 1979, The Good Birth Guide 1979, The Experience of Breast-feeding 1979, Pregnancy and Childbirth 1980, Sheila Kitzinger’s Birth Book 1981. (with Rhiannon Walters) Some Women’s Experiences of Episiotomy 1981, Episiotomy: physical and emotional aspects 1981, Birth Over Thirty 1982, The New Good Birth Guide 1983, Woman’s Experience of Sex 1983, (editor with Penny Simkin) Episiotomy and the Second Stage of Labor 1984, Being Bom 1986, Celebration of Birth 1987, Freedom and Choice in Childbirth 1987, Some Women’s Experiences of Epidurals 1987, Giving Birth: How it Really Feels 1987, The Midwife Challenge (editor) 1988, The Crying Baby 1989, The New Pregnancy and Childbirth 1989, Breast-feeding Your Baby (with Vicky Bailey) 1989, Pregnancy Day by Day 1990.
Panel of Advisers, National Childbirth Trust. Royal Society of Medicine.
Married Uwe Kitzinger in 1952.