Janet Golden

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780521495448
• ISBN-10: 052149544X
• Artikelnr.: 22469915

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Public discourse and private relations: wet nursing in Colonial America
2. The new motherhood and the new view of wet nurses, 1780-1865
3. Finding 'just the right kind of woman': the urban wet nurse marketplace, 1830-1900
4. 'Victims of distressing circumstances': the wet nurse labor force and the offspring of wet nurses, 1860-1910
5. Medical oversight and medical dilemmas: the physician and the wet nurse, 1870-1910
6. 'Obliged to have wet nurses': relations in the private household, 1870-1925
7. 'Therapeutic merchandise': human milk in the twentieth century
Epilogue. From commodity to gift.