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Post-War Mothers

By Thomas, Mary Alvey

Post-War Mothers

By Thomas, Mary Alvey

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For pregnant women in the 1930s and 1940s Dr Grantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) proposed natural childbirth as the "normal" way to have babies, making drugs, instruments and hospitalization unnecessary. His book Childbirth without Fear, first published in 1933, spoke of the joys of natural childbirth; women from around the world wrote long, detailed, and poignant letters in response, describing their own experiences in giving birth. This edited collection of the correspondence affords a rare look at childbirth experiences in the hospitals and birthing centers in post-war America and Britain from the perspective of the patient, as women discuss the way they were viewed by society, by hospitals, and by physicians and nurses, and their own feelings on childbirth; overall, the book provides an important opportunity to evaluate the treatment of women in the 1940s and 1950s, the generation who gave birth to the so-called "baby boomers." Professor MARY ALVEY THOMAS teaches at Bentley College, Waltham.
Product details
Number of Pages:
266
Release Date:
1997-12-01
Publication Date:
1998-03-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
187882287X
ISBN13:
9781878822871
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
587 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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