Title Reproduction on the reservation : pregnancy, childbirth, and colonialism in the long twentieth century / Brianna Theobald

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) : illustrations Series Critical indigeneities Critical indigeneities. Contents Childbearing and childrearing -- To instill the hospital habit -- Nurse, mother, midwife -- Relocating reproduction -- Our Crow Indian Hospital -- Self-determination begins in the womb -- Epilogue: twenty-first-century stories Summary "The first book-length history of reproduction that centers [on] Native American women, Reproduction on the reservation documents the transformation of reproductive practices on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Relying on extensive archival research as well as oral histories that allow Native women to tell their own stories, this study integrates a local history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting women throughout Indian country. Historian Brianna Theobald uses the lens of reproductive justice to demonstrate the extent to which colonial politics have been--and remain--reproductive politics. In the process, she offers compelling new analyses of topics ranging from pronatalism to eugenics to relocation. At the heart of this history are the Native women who displayed creativity and fortitude in navigating pregnancy and childbirth in evolving historical contexts and who struggled for reproductive self-determination on--and sometimes off--reservations throughout the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record John C. Ewers Book Award, 2020 Subject Indian women -- North America. Maternal health services -- North America Reproductive rights -- North America Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene. Indians, North American -- history Reproductive Rights -- history Maternal Health Services -- history Health Policy -- history Women's Rights -- history History, 20th Century HISTORY -- Native American. Indian women Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene Maternal health services Reproductive rights Indianerin Reservat Ethnologie Kolonialismus Reproduktion SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject North America Nordamerika Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469653181 1469653184 9781469653174 1469653176

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