Description |
xxiv, 322 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Introduction / Ruth Roach Pierson, Andrée Lévesque, and Katherine Arnup -- "Motherhood issues" in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Jane Lewis -- "The case of the missing midwives" : a history of midwifery in Ontario from 1795-1900 / C. Lesley Biggs -- The different stages of the elimination of midwives in Quebec / Hélène Laforce -- Childbirth in Ontario : the transition from home to hospital in the early twentieth century / Jo Oppenheimer -- The confinement of women : childbirth and hospitalization in Vancouver, 1919-1939 / Veronica Strong-Boag and Kathryn McPherson -- Deviants anonymous : single mothers at the Hôpital de la Miséricorde in Montreal, 1929-1939 / Andrée Lévesque -- Discoveries and dissimulations : the impact of abortion deaths on maternal mortality in British Columbia / Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren |
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Women's involvement in the Canadian birth control movement of the 1930s : the Hamilton Clinic / Dianne Dodd -- Mothering in a Newfoundland community : 1900-1940 / Cecilia Benoit -- Educating mothers : government advice for women in the inter-war years / Katherine Arnup -- Schools for happiness : Instituts Familiaux and the education of ideal wives and mothers / Sherene Razack -- The La Leche League : a feminist perspective / Deborah Gorham and Florence Kellner Andrews -- Ellen Key : maternalism and pacificism / Ruth Roach Pierson -- Desperately seeking babies : new technologies of hope and despair / Rona Achilles -- Index / Sherene Razack and Joanne Thompson |
Analysis |
Canada Motherhood Social aspects, history |
Notes |
Includes index and bibliographical references |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Abortion -- Canada -- History.
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Birth control -- Canada -- History.
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Childbirth -- Canada -- History.
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Human reproduction -- Social aspects -- Canada.
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Family planning -- Canada -- History.
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Midwifery -- Canada -- History.
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Motherhood -- Canada -- History.
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Mothers -- Canada -- History.
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Obstetrics -- Canada -- History.
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Abortion -- History
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Abortion -- history
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Family Planning Services -- history.
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Midwifery -- history.
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Mothers -- history.
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Obstetrics -- history.
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SUBJECT |
Canada. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170 |
Author |
Arnup, Katherine, 1949-
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Lévesque, Andrée.
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Pierson, Ruth Roach, 1938-
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LC no. |
89010297 |
ISBN |
0415020182 |
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