DELIVERING MOTHERHOOD maternal ideologies and practices in the 19th and 20th centuries / edited by Katherine Arnup, Andrée Lévesque, and Ruth Roach Pierson ; with the assistance of Margaret Brennan.

In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, motherhood in Canada, as elsewhere in the western world, became contested terrain. Male medical practitioners vied with midwives, and midwives with nurses, while reform-minded middle-class women joined with the eugenically minded state officia...

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