Laurie A Wilkie

The Archaeology of Mothering

An African-American Midwife's Tale

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780415945691
• ISBN-10: 0415945690
• Artikelnr.: 21000581

Autorenporträt

Laurie Wilkie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Creating Freedom (Louisana State University Press 2000) and Ethnicity, Community and Power(University of South Carolina Press 1994).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Prologue 1. Why an
Archaeology of Mothering? 2. The Perryman Family of Mobile Narrative
Interlude I 3. African-American Mothering and Enslavement Narrative
Interlude II 4. Mothering and Domesticity in Freedom: Ideology and Practice
Narrative Interlude III 5. Midwifery as Mother's Work Narrative Interlude
IV 6. To Mother or not to Mother Narrative Interlude V 7. Midwifery and
Scientific Mothering Narrative Interlude VI 8. Conclusions: The Many
Ideologies of African-American Motherhood Bibliography