‘The compass here, a marker of the male journey of expedition, is in fact the counterpoint to the bowl of honey – that oozing stickiness seeping from its wax comb with its metaphorical allusion to the ruptured mother’s womb.’ (Extract from A Breach in Representation: Caesarean Section and Christine Dixie’s ‘Birthing Tray – Honey’ by Prof. Brenda Schmahmann).