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The archaeology of mothering an African-American midwife's tale Laurie A. Wilkie

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Englisch New York ; London Routledge 2003Description: XXIX, 240 S. Ill. 23 cmISBN:
  • 0415945690
  • 0-415-94570-4
Subject(s): 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 regarding mothering performance and practice to the broader African-American community. Contents: Why an archaeology of mothering? - The Perryman family of Mobile - 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
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Buch C3-Bibliothek Bestand Frauensolidarität UG I G 733 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available +YSF04910

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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 regarding mothering performance and practice to the broader African-American community. Contents: Why an archaeology of mothering? - The Perryman family of Mobile - 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

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