Delivering Motherhood: Maternal Ideologies and Practices in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

Synopsis

In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, motherhood in Canada, as elsewhere in the western world, became contested terrain. Male medical practitioners vied with midwives, and midwives with nurses, while reform-minded middle-class women joined with the eugenically minded state officials in efforts to control the quantity and quality of the population. As reproduction gained in importance as a political as well as a religious issue, motherhood became the centre of debate over public health and welfare policies and formed the cornerstone of feminist and anti-feminist, as well as nationalist and pacifist ideologies.Originally published in 1990, Delivering Motherhood (now with a new preface by Katherine Arnup) is the first comprehensive study on the history of this complex development in Canada, where control over the different stages of reproduction, from conception, to delivery, to childcare, shifted from the central figure of the mother to experts and professionals. The contributions range from the treatment of single mothers in Montreal in the Depression to La Leche League in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.This book will be an essential read for students and researchers of women’s studies, feminist studies, women’s history, and sociology.

Copyright:

1990

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781040125069

Related ISBNs:

9781040125045, 9781032833828, 9781003509097

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

09/30/24

Copyrighted By:

Katherine Arnup, Andrée Lévesque, and Ruth Roach Pierson. Individual contributions

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine, Sociology

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Edited by:

Katherine Arnup

Edited by:

Andrée Lévesque

Edited by:

Ruth Roach Pierson