| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographcal references and index. |
| Summary |
"Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains shows how women and mothers constructed citizens, and how public health entities usurped that role, with varied long-term impacts on women, men, families, community, and American identity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Birth in the big open -- The expertise of women -- Midwives among us -- The practice of birth -- Death in the West -- Birth goes public -- Maternity homes and motherhood -- Conclusion: What we lost. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Midwives -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Motherhood -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Pregnant women -- Health and hygiene -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Pregnancy -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Childbirth -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. |
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) |
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Pregnant women -- Health and hygiene. |
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Pregnancy. |
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Motherhood. |
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Midwives. |
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Childbirth. |
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West United States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse. distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781496226853 1496226852 (DLC) 2021037006 (OCoLC)1258649100 |
| ISBN |
9781496231086 (electronic bk.) |
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1496231082 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496226853 (paperback) |
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