Author: Massachusetts Infant AsylumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Annual Report of the Directors of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum
Author: Massachusetts Infant AsylumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Pity for Evil
Author: Monica KlemPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641773405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the women’s rights movement, women’s medical education, and public-private charitable partnerships joined forces to reduce the incidence of abortion in America. As alumni of the abolitionist movement, they analyzed abortion in ways that resembled their earlier critiques of slavery. Abortion, too, was a structural problem. A self-evidently evil act, it was sustained by the quack doctors and unscrupulous press that it enriched. These advocates believed that women seeking abortions had usually been deprived of their ability to act freely, rationally, and well in the world, almost always by external forces. Thus, they had sympathy for their suffering sisters and pity for their injuries—physical and moral. Early women’s rights advocates worked to raise vulnerable women to their feet, providing them with material and moral resources for “self-extrication” from the depths into which they had sunk. The authors of this book have approached their subject critically, examining not just the early women’s rights advocates’ publicly spoken words, but the networks and institutions that they built. This previously untold story illuminates the early history of women’s rights and abortion in America.
A Social History of Wet Nursing in America
Author: Janet GoldenPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814250723
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
From the colonial period through to the 20th century, this text examines the intersection of medical science, social theory and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians and families. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the 20th century. Janet Golden's study contributes to our understanding of the cultural authority of medical science, the role of physicians in shaping child rearing practices, the social construction of motherhood, and the profound dilemmas of class and culture that played out in the private space of the nursery.
Annual Report of the Directors, Presented to the Corporation at the Annual Meeting
Author: Massachusetts Babies Hospital, Jamaica PlainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
State Charities Aid Association Annual Report
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Reports for 1909/10-1920/21 include the association's 18th-29th Annual report to the State Hospital Commission ( varies slightly)
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Report
Author: Michigan State University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublications
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description