labour ward. ?A nurse was attending to me, she told me I had to help, to push. At that moment I couldn?t. I was yelling. The nurse gave me a slap. That made me very ashamed, she treated me as a bad girl.? - a woman?s report of how she was treated in labour room. (D'Oliveira, Diniz, & Schraiber, 2002) ?She delivered on the floor as the nurse was still shouting, she continued to shout at her and she didn?t even look to see how the baby came out.? (Direct Observation) (Sando et al., n.d.) We
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin