 Dick-Read has been criticized for being anti-feminist.In his book "Motherhood in the Post-War World" he wrote, "Woman fails when she ceases to desire the children for which she was primarily made.Her true emancipation lies in freedom to fulfill her biological purposes," as well as stating that tribal women who died in childbirth did so "without any sadness...realizing if they were not competent to produce children for the spirits of their fathers and for the tribe, they had no place in the tribe."