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This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the centre of the story. From quickening through to confinement, giving caudle, delivery and lying-in, birth was once a complex ritual that involved entire communities. Drawing on an extensive and under-researched body of materials, such as letters, diaries and recipe books, this book offers critical new perspectives on the history of the family and community. It explores the rituals of childbirth, from birthing clothing to the foods traditionally eaten before and after birth, and also how a woman’s relationship with her family, husband, friends and neighbours changed during pregnancy and beyond. In this important and deeply moving study, we are invited on a detailed and emotive journey through motherhood in an age of immense intellectual and sociocultural change.
Childbirth --- History --- Birth --- Birthing --- Child birth --- Live birth --- Obstetrics --- Parturition --- Labor (Obstetrics) --- Childbirth.
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"In this incredibly important book, Sarah Alisabeth Fox effectively shows how the stories of regular people are to be trusted more than the words of the government and the experts when the latter are lying in a misguided attempt to protect national security."-Doug Brugge, professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine
Nuclear weapons testing victims --- Nuclear weapons --- Radioactive fallout --- Radiation --- Physics --- Radiology --- Dust, Radioactive --- Fallout, Radioactive --- Radioactive dust --- Atomic bomb --- Fallout shelters --- Fission products --- Hydrogen bomb --- Nuclear energy and meteorology --- Radioactive pollution --- Radioactive pollution of the atmosphere --- Radioactive substances --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear warfare --- Atomic weapons testing victims --- Victims of nuclear weapons testing --- Radiation victims --- Testing --- History. --- Health aspects. --- Health aspects --- Uranium miners --- Uranium mines and mining --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- HISTORY --- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah. --- Nuclear industry --- Nuclear weapons testing victims. --- Health and hygiene --- Infrastructure. --- General. --- State & Local --- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) --- Health and hygiene. --- West United States. --- Mines and mineral resources --- Uranium industry --- Miners --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, West --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States
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Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society.The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds-they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education.Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context-Dartmouth College-often very different from their childhood ones.
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