| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index. |
| Contents |
Why an archaeology of mothering? -- The Perryman family of Mobile -- Narrative interlude I -- African-American mothering and enslavement -- Narrative interlude II -- Mothering and domesticity in freedom: ideology and practice -- Narrative interlude III -- Midwifery as mother's work -- Narrative interlude IV -- To mother or not to mother -- Narrative interlude V -- Midwifery and scientific mothering -- Narrative interlude VI -- Conclusions: the many ideologies of African-American motherhood. |
| Summary |
"Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. The female head of this household, Lucrecia Perryman, turned to midwifery to support her family and as a midwife, became a vehicle for transmitting cultural, social, and political knowledge to the broader African-American community. As this compelling work moves outward, beginning with the site and its one-time occupants, the story continues to widen, broadening to midwifery in general, and finally mediating on the ideology of mothering."--Publisher. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
African American midwives -- Alabama -- Mobile -- Biography.
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African American mothers -- Social conditions.
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Enslaved women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Motherhood -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0415945690 (Hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780415945691 (Hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0415945704 (Paperback ; alk. paper) |
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9780415945707 (Paperback ; alk. paper) |
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9780429236464 (ebk) |
| Standard No. |
heb40217 hdl |
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