{"product_id":"japanese-american-midwives-susan-l-smith-9780252072475","title":"Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth century, Japan's modernizing quest for empire transformed midwifery into a new woman's profession. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei women. They actively participated in the creation of Japanese American community and culture as preservers of Japanese birthing customs and agents of cultural change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJapanese American Midwives\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the dynamic relationship between this welfare state and the history of women and health. Susan L. Smith blends midwives' individual stories with astute analysis to demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's caregiving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics. By setting the history of Japanese American midwives in this larger context, Smith reveals little-known ethnic, racial, and regional aspects of women's history and the history of medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan L. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252072472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252072475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.44w x 0.77d","brand":"Susan L. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054452994303,"sku":"9780252072475","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d0435fb-7fee-432b-b625-1458516b5b6e.jpg?v=1685030063","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/japanese-american-midwives-susan-l-smith-9780252072475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}