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The archaeology of mothering : an African-American midwife's tale / Laurie A. Wilkie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkie, Laurie A., 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perryman, Lucrecia.
- African American midwives--Alabama--Mobile--Biography.
- African American midwives.
- African American mothers--Social conditions.
- African American mothers.
- Enslaved women--United States--Social conditions.
- Enslaved women.
- Motherhood--United States--History.
- Motherhood.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2003.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Why an archaeology of mothering?
- The Perryman family of Mobile
- Narrative interlude
- African-American mothering and enslavement
- Mothering and domesticity in freedom: ideology and practice
- Midwifery as mother's work
- To mother or not to mother
- Midwifery and scientific mothering
- Conclusions: the many ideologies of African-American motherhood.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781136755446
- 1136755446
- 9780429236464
- 0429236468
- 9781283711524
- 1283711524
- 9781136755453
- 1136755454
- 9780203821176
- 0203821173
- OCLC:
- 817919401
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