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Hearts of wisdom : American women caring for kin, 1850-1940 /

A study of caregiving in America across ethnic and class divides during the 19th and early 20th century. This book reveals how a complex series of historical changes altered the cultural meaning of care.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abel, Emily K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Hot flannels, hot teas, and a great deal of care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888
  • An overview of nineteenth-century caregiving
  • "Tried at the quilting bees": conflicts between "old ladies" and aspiring professionals
  • A "terrible and exhausting" struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924
  • "Just as you direct": caregiver translations of medical authority
  • Negotiating public health directives: poor New Yorkers at the turn of the century
  • Caregiving during the Great Depression: mothers seeking children's health care and American Indians encountering public health nurses
  • "Very dear to my heart": confronting labels of feeblemindedness and epilepsy
  • "Like ordinary hearing children": raising offspring according to oralist dictates
  • Conclusion: The uses of the past.