Author: John Douglass WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gynecology
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Maidenhood and Motherhood, Or Ten Phases of Woman's Life
Author: John Douglass WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gynecology
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Maidenhood and Motherhood, Or, Ten Phases of Woman's Life
Author: John D. WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gynecology
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Perfect Motherhood
Author: Rima Dombrow ApplePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813538432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In Perfect Motherhood, Rima D. Apple shows how the growing belief that mothers need to be savvy about the latest scientific directives has shifted the role of expert away from the mother and toward the professional establishment.
Maiden to Mother
Author: Sarah Durham WilsonPublisher:
ISBN: 1649632525
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A richly rewarding guide for women stepping into their full feminine power Pre-patriarchal cultures revered the passage from youth to maturity as a part of nature’s cycle. Yet, today’s society has largely severed women from this connection, asking them to remain young, pretty, and disconnected from their inner sacredness. Maiden to Mother offers a desperately needed pathway out of infantilization and disempowerment and into soul-sourced sovereign wholeness. Through story, ritual, and teaching, Wilson ushers women through the ancient passage of the immature “Maiden” phase of life and guides us through the crucial initiation into the archetypal Mother—the powerful, safe, compassionate, full-bloom feminine life force that exists within all of us. The Mother is every woman’s birthright, regardless of whether or not she raises children. It is an embodiment of who we needed as a child, who we were meant to be in this life, and who the world needs us to be now. Here, we are invited to dismantle our internalized conditioning with its false, constricting standards for the feminine, so that we may live with authenticity and feast on the richness of life. “Midlife is not, as our culture proposes, where a woman’s power ends,” says Wilson, “but where it really begins.”
Maidenhood and Motherhood ; Or, Ten Phases of Woman's Life
Author: John D. West (M.D.)Mother Is a Verb
Author: Sarah KnottPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374714053
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Welcome to a work of history unlike any other. Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity—the history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter with an infant? Can one capture the historical trail of mothers? How? In Mother Is a Verb, the historian Sarah Knott creates a genre all her own in order to craft a new kind of historical interpretation. Blending memoir and history and building from anecdote, her book brings the past and the present viscerally alive. It is at once intimate and expansive, lyrical and precise. As a history, Mother Is a Verb draws on the terrain of Britain and North America from the seventeenth century to the close of the twentieth. Knott searches among a range of past societies, from those of Cree and Ojibwe women to tenant farmers in Appalachia; from enslaved people on South Carolina rice plantations to tenement dwellers in New York City and London’s East End. She pores over diaries, letters, court records, medical manuals, items of clothing. And she explores and documents her own experiences. As a memoir, Mother Is a Verb becomes a method of asking new questions and probing lost pasts in order to historicize the smallest, even the most mundane of human experiences. Is there a history to interruption, to the sound of an infant’s cry, to sleeplessness? Knott finds answers not through the telling of grand narratives, but through the painstaking accumulation of a trellis of anecdotes. And all the while, we can feel the child on her hip.
Lost
Author: Shannon WithycombePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813591538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Oh joy, oh rapture : describing the nineteenth-century miscarriage -- Enveloped in mystery : pregnancy and miscarriage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Before its due time : setting standards in miscarriage, 1830-1860s -- Dr. Taylor went up in the uterus : miscarriage treatment and intrusive interventions, 1860-1900 -- The body in the clot : medical interest in miscarried tissues, 1870-1912
Maidenhood and Motherhood, or Ten Phases of Woman's Life
Author: John D. WestPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330588130
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
Excerpt from Maidenhood and Motherhood, or Ten Phases of Woman's Life: How to Protect the Health, Contribute to the Physical and Mental Development, and Increase the Happiness of Womankind There is o higher study for womankind than woman. There is no way in which the women of to-day can so well or surely help themselves and those about them and confer lasting benefits upon their children and their race as by learning to understand their own delicate organizations and how best to cherish and protect them. Mothers mold the characters of their sons and daughters, by their early training or by want of it, either for good or for evil. Even the best mothers, either through mistaken delicacy or want of information, often neglect to instruct their daughters in those matters about which they most need to know. The little girl realizes that she is not a boy; she does not know why. She changes to maidenhood without realizing the great purpose which Nature is working out, and often comes to womanhood without more than suspecting the grave responsibility of living and giving life. Her children die in infancy and she is tempted to blame Providence for afflictions which it might have been within her power to avert. If they grow to mature years it may be with a weak constitution or imperfect health, which had their cause and beginning in her own lack of information before they were born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Maidenhood and Motherhood, Or, Ten Phases of Woman's Life
Author: John D. WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gynecology
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
Gold Diggers & Silver Miners
Author: Marion S. GoldmanPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472063321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A study of prostitution in 19th-century Virginia City