{"product_id":"post-war-mothers-mary-alvey-thomas-9781878822871","title":"Post-War Mothers: Childbirth Letters to Grantly Dick-Read, 1946-1956","description":"Women's experience of childbirth in the mid-twentieth century, revealed in their own words. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor pregnant women in the 1930s and 1940s Dr. Grantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) proposed natural childbirth as the \"normal\" way to have babies, making drugs, instruments and hospitalization unnecessary. His book Childbirth withoutFear, first published in 1933, spoke of the joys of natural childbirth; women from around the world wrote long, detailed, and poignant letters in response, describing their own experiences in giving birth.\u003cbr\u003e This edited collection of the correspondence affords a rare look at childbirth experiences in the hospitals and birthing centers in post-war America and Britain from the perspective of the patient, as women discuss the way they were viewed bysociety, by hospitals, and by physicians and nurses, and their own feelings on childbirth; overall, the book provides an important opportunity to evaluate the treatment of women in the 1940s and 1950s, the generation who gave birth to the so-called \"baby boomers.\" Professor MARY ALVEY THOMAS teaches at Bentley College, Waltham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Alvey Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 187882287X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781878822871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Rochester Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.20w x 0.89d","brand":"Mary Alvey Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44125501882623,"sku":"9781878822871","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_80507539-983b-44f1-984b-60f90e3baf25.jpg?v=1687442997","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/post-war-mothers-mary-alvey-thomas-9781878822871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}