A Social History of Wet Nursing in America
From Breast to Bottle
Part of Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
- Author: Janet Golden, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Date Published: April 2011
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A Social History of Wet Nursing in the United States: From Breast to Bottle examines the intersection of medical science, social theory and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians and families from the colonial period through the twentieth century. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalised, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the twentieth century. Janet Golden's study contributes to our understanding of the cultural authority of medical science, the role of physicians in shaping child rearing practices, the social construction of motherhood, and the profound dilemmas of class and culture that played out in the private space of the nursery.
Read more- First comprehensive history of wet nursing in the United States
- Combines case studies with analysis of prescriptive literature and quantitative methods
- Combines social history, women's history, medical history
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511890970
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Public discourse and private relations: wet nursing in Colonial America
2. The new motherhood and the new view of wet nurses, 1780–1865
3. Finding 'just the right kind of woman': the urban wet nurse marketplace, 1830–1900
4. 'Victims of distressing circumstances': the wet nurse labor force and the offspring of wet nurses, 1860–1910
5. Medical oversight and medical dilemmas: the physician and the wet nurse, 1870–1910
6. 'Obliged to have wet nurses': relations in the private household, 1870–1925
7. 'Therapeutic merchandise': human milk in the twentieth century
Epilogue. From commodity to gift.
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