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100 1 Michaels, Paula A.,|d1966-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
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245 10 Lamaze :|ban international history /|cPaula A. Michaels.
264 1 Oxford :|bOxford University Press, USA,|c[2014]
300 1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) :|billustrations.
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490 1 Oxford studies in international history
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents;
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Translation
of Foreign Terms; Introduction; 1. Medicalized Childbirth
and Natural Childbirth; 2. The Soviet Method, 1936-51; 3.
"Science Knows No Borders": Psychoprophylaxis in France,
1951-56; 4. "Passionate Controversies": Conflict and
Change across Europe in the 1950s; 5. Lamaze Goes Global,
1957-67; 6. American Gains and Global Decline, 1968-80; 7.
Revolution or Cooptation?; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography;
Index.
520 "The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural
childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes
was a common rite of passage to parenthood. The conscious
relaxation and patterned breathing techniques touted as a
natural and empowering path to the alleviation of pain in
childbirth resonated with the feminist and countercultural
values of the era. In Lamaze, historian Paula Michaels
tells the surprising story of the Lamaze method from its
origins in the Soviet Union in the 1940s, to its
popularization in France in the 1950s, and then to its
heyday in the 1960s and 1970s in the US. Michaels shows
how, for different reasons, in disparate national contexts,
this technique for managing the pain of childbirth without
resort to drugs found a following. The Soviet government
embraced this method as a panacea to childbirth pain in
the face of the material and fiscal shortages that
followed World War II. Heated and sometimes ideologically
inflected debates surrounded the Lamaze method as it moved
from East to West amid the Cold War. Physicians in France
sympathetic to the communist cause helped to export it
across the Iron Curtain, but politics alone fails to
explain why French women embraced this approach. Arriving
on American shores around 1960, the Lamaze method took on
new meanings. Initially it offered a path to a safer and
more satisfying birth experience, but overtly political
considerations came to the fore once again as feminists
appropriated it as a way to resist the patriarchal
authority of male obstetricians. Drawing on a wealth of
archival evidence, Michaels pieces together this complex
and fascinating story at the crossroads of the history of
politics, medicine, and women. The story of Lamaze
illuminates the many contentious issues that swirl around
birthing practices in America and Europe. Brimming with
insight, Michaels' engaging history offers an instructive
intervention in the debate about how to achieve humane,
empowering, and safe maternity care for all women"--
|cProvided by publisher.
520 "Advocated as the oldest, most natural method of
childbirth, Lamaze is a practice involving breathing
techniques that help a woman work through contractions
(psychoprophylaxis). It has been omnipresent in American
culture since the 1970s, advocated by the medical
community and mothers alike. While it would seem that it
emerged from the back-to-the-earth culture of the 1960s
and 1970s, Paula Michaels in this book reveals a shocking
history: the Lamaze method was actually invented in the
Cold War Soviet Union. Michaels discovers that a French
obstetrician, Fernand Lamaze, saw the technique being used
in Russia in the 1950s and brought it back to his
maternity ward in Paris. In order to make the method more
appealing to Americans, early U.S. advocates hid its
Soviet origins and were able to spread it as a grassroots
movement. This work involving multiple languages and
archives in a range of nations promises to be eye-opening
for scholars, the medical community, and general readers
alike. In setting the practice of Lamaze into its context,
it will shed light on the history of medicine, the history
of feminism, and Cold War history"--|cProvided by
publisher.
588 0 Print version record.
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