Employing seventy-eight in-depth interviews with Italian and Jewish American women, this study presents the subjective voices of women caught up in an important social change: the pre-1940 transformation of childbirth. Italian women were more varied in their choices-some were more likely to prefer home birth with a midwife, while others used a hospital clinic or private physician. A significant number moved from home to hospital over their birth careers, while nearly all Jewish women selected physician-assisted hospital birth. These differences are explained by looking at the structure and context of women's family and friendship networks and their personal links to varying childbirth caretakers.
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Danzi's study points to the way in which the culture of everyday practices, when studies within a historical framework, allows us to understand further the complexities of immigrant women's lives and of ethnic communities generally. * Italian American Review *
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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978-0-7618-0911-1 (9780761809111)
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Angela D. Danzi is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the State University of New York, Farmingdale.
