Nations Are Built of Babies
Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940
Nations Are Built of Babies documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the national tragedy of infant and maternal mortality by advocating scientific motherhood. Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties. Working within a Marxist-feminist framework, Cynthia Comacchio demonstrates that the campaign was pa…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7735-1770-7
- EAN: 9780773517707
- Produktnummer: 1464895
- Verlag: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.4 cm 494 g
- Abbildungen: Illustrations
- Gewicht: 494
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