The women is all alone in this whole procedure. It takes two to make a baby but from the text book it can be assumed that there is no role of men in this whole procedure. Women are all alone in the process of producing the child. The second assumption can be made is that when women go through menstrual cycle and menopause, the medical text book treats this natural period in womens life as though they have a desease and that their bodies needs to be controlled by medical science in order to be treated. .
In the medical world of women, pregnancy may be considered as a risky business. On the one hand the claim is made that being pregnant and going through the whole pregnancy is a normal function of a women. Meaning bearing and rearing children is one of the normal roles of women, but on the other hand, pregnancy is also seen as a risky experience and all the responsability is put onto a women. In other words, risk factors tend to give all responsability for the babies proper development on .
the women focusing only on the impact of the lifestyle that is put onto the future newborn health. In "The Women In The Body; A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (1992), the author Emily Martin shows that in describing various physiological .
processes, medical science assumes production , i.e., baby making and child rearing as the normal state of the female body. Although medical texts present the picture of women as factories as if it were "natural", Martin shows that such an explanation is in .
fact a powerful cultural artefact which, by describing women via metaphors of production, works to confine them to domestic roles. Once the body factory norm is no longer presupposed, alternate understandings of the female body become possible. .
The medical text book that i read talked about the importance of a pregnant women's first month. It talked about how women display insecurity during their first month (Beckmann, page 17).