Baby Trouble in the Last Best West : Making New People in Alberta, 1905-1939 /

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"Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn't conform to the norm. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women's childbearing became understood as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kaler, Amy, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Social conditions.
Single mothers > Social conditions.
Reproductive rights.
Parenthood > Social aspects.
Illegitimacy.
Human reproduction > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Nourrissons > Mort > Aspect social > Alberta > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Filiation naturelle > Alberta > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Condition de parents > Aspect social > Alberta > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Meres de famille monoparentale > Alberta > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Reproduction humaine > Aspect social > Alberta > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Droits genesiques > Alberta > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Infants > Death > Social aspects > Alberta > History > 20th century.
Illegitimacy > Alberta > History > 20th century.
Parenthood > Social aspects > Alberta > History > 20th century.
Single mothers > Alberta > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Alberta > History > 20th century.
Human reproduction > Social aspects > Alberta > History > 20th century.
Reproductive rights > Alberta > History > 20th century.
Alberta.
Alberta > Social conditions > 1905-1945.
Alberta > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Little Immigrant Who Comes into Our Homes: The Material Conditions of Childbirth; 3 Treasures: Multiple Economies of Reproduction at the Beulah Rescue Home; 4 Mothers' Duties: Eugenics, Sterilization, and the United Farm Women of Alberta; 5 "Perhaps You May Think Me Independent": The Right to Mothers' Allowance; 6 Unless the Infant Lives, the National Gain Is Nil: Infant Mortality as Failed Reproduction; 7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.

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