Where Should Women Give Birth? Date Assignments and Events 4/4 Secondary Sources Lara Marks, babies, and hospitals: London’ and the “Mothers, ‘The provision of maternity care in East London, 1870-1939” in Lara Marks and Hilary Marland (eds.), Women and Children First: International Time Period: Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945, (London: Routledge, 1992). 1750-1930s Judith Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), Chapter 7 Primary Sources An Account of the Middlesex Hospital, for the Reception of Sick and Lame, and for Lying-in Married Women, in Windmill-Street, (London, 1761) Road in the Hospital”, (1860) Harper’s Weekly 4 “Rats Ann Rivington, Third Class” American Mercury (Feb. “Motherhood – 1934) and Third Class A Reply” American Mercury “Motherhood – – (April 1934) Royal College of Midwives, Midwife’s Tale Oral History Collection “The Videos” [Esther Silverton 2 and Alice Forrest] Topics: lying-in hospitals in the U.S. and England, hospital births for the and the “rich” “poor” Secondary Sources 4/6 Angela Davis. Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, x. 1945-2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), Chapter 4 Angela Danzi, From Home to Hospital: Jewish and Italian American Time Period: Women and Childbirth, 1920-1940, Chapter 6 1950-1980 Secondary/Primary Sources M.F. Ashley Montagu, Should be Born at Home!” Ladies Home “Babies Journal (August 1955) Edward Cope and M. Margaret Gimblett. Birth or Hospital?” The “Home Times (London, Feb. 12, 1960) in the Maternity Service” (London, June 1, 1964) “Choice Topics: increased hospital birth Before next class Online Reflection Posts Post 3 due 4/8 by 8PM Comments on reflection online posts posts due 4/9 by 8PM 4/11 Perspective Paper Proposals due (in-class peer review) ECF-FG from Eberly Center (Megan Sanders)
Where Should Women Give Birth? Date Assignments and Events 4/4 Time Period: 1750-1930s Secondary Sources Lara Marks, “Mothers, babies, and hospitals: ‘The London’ and the provision of maternity care in East London, 1870-1939” in Lara Marks and Hilary Marland (eds.), Women and Children First: International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945, (London: Routledge, 1992). Judith Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), Chapter 7 Primary Sources An Account of the Middlesex Hospital, for the Reception of Sick and Lame, and for Lying-in Married Women, in Windmill-Street, Road (London, 1761) “Rats in the Hospital”, Harper’s Weekly 4 (1860) Ann Rivington, “Motherhood – Third Class” American Mercury (Feb. 1934) and “Motherhood – Third Class – A Reply” American Mercury (April 1934) Royal College of Midwives, “The Midwife’s Tale Oral History Collection Videos” [Esther Silverton 2 and Alice Forrest] Topics: lying-in hospitals in the U.S. and England, hospital births for the “rich” and the “poor” 4/6 Time Period: 1950-1980 Secondary Sources Angela Davis. Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, x. 1945-2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), Chapter 4 Angela Danzi, From Home to Hospital: Jewish and Italian American Women and Childbirth, 1920-1940, Chapter 6 Secondary/Primary Sources M.F. Ashley Montagu, “Babies Should be Born at Home!” Ladies Home Journal (August 1955) Edward Cope and M. Margaret Gimblett. “Home Birth or Hospital?” The Times (London, Feb. 12, 1960) “Choice in the Maternity Service” (London, June 1, 1964) Topics: increased hospital birth Before next class Online Reflection Posts Post 3 due 4/8 by 8PM Comments on reflection online posts posts due 4/9 by 8PM 4/11 Perspective Paper Proposals due (in-class peer review) ECF-FG from Eberly Center (Megan Sanders)
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