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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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| 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.