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Contents: Section 1: Theories and practices: Power and social construction of birth territory -- Theorising birth territory -- Midwifery guardianship -- Territories of the self and spiritual practices during childbirth -- Section 2: Physiology and the physical space: Creating birth space to enable undisturbed birth -- The spiritual and emotional territory of the unborn baby -- Mindbodyspirit architecture: creating birth space -- Section 3: Midwives, obstetricians and the maternity services: Being a midwife to midwifery services -- Birth territory: the besieged territory of the obstetrician -- From ideal to real: the interface between birth territory and the maternity service organization