Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African-American and Jewish Women

by Jacquelyn S. Litt

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The 1946 publication of Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care signaled the pervasive influence of expert 'medicalized motherhood' in mid-twentieth-century America. Throughout the previous two decades, pediatricians and women's magazines alike advised mothers of the importance of physicians' guidance for the everyday care of their children, and Spock's book popularized this advice, particularly among white, middle-class women.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813527821

ISBN13:9780813527826

Release Date:March 2000

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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