Motherhood in the Old South : Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0807121665
ISBN-13
9780807121665
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 1997
Print length
254 Pages
Weight
363 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.30 x 1.50 cms
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Explores the childbearing and -rearing responsibilities that consumed, often literally, the lives of women in the Old South. Sally McMillen explores the social, political, and medical influences of the time, and examines how a woman's maternal role ensured her value within the family and the greater society.
Sally G. McMillen has written an enthralling historical account of the childbearing and -rearing responsibilities that consumed, often literally, the lives of women in the Old South. She explores the social, political, and medical influences of the time, which led women to assume fervently the full responsibility for their ""sacred occupation,"", and examines how a woman's maternal role ensured her value within the family and the greater society. Along with intimate details that authenticate her study. McMillen provides telling statistics on the number of women who died in childbirth, the rate of infant mortality, and the incidence of other causes of death to mothers and their children during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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