Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals)

Hilary Marland, Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks

• List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction 1. Some international features of maternal morality, 1880-1950 Irvine Loudon 2. Maternity care and the threat of puerperal fever in Sydney, 1870-1939 Milton Lewis 3. Mothers, babies and hospitals: ‘The London’ and the provision of maternity care in East London, 1870-1939 Lara Marks 4. The medicalization of motherhood: doctors and infant welfare in the Netherlands, 1901-1930 Hilary Marland 5. ‘The infant soldier’: early child welfare efforts in Ontario Cynthia R. Comacchio 6. ‘Why does Congress wish women and children to die?’: the rise and fall of public maternal and infant health care in the United States, 1921-1929 Molly Ladd-Taylor 7. Ephemeral lives: the unremitting infant mortality of colonial Burma, 1891-1941 Judith Richell 8. Women and the state: maternal and child welfare in colonial Malaya, 1900-1940 Lenore Manderson 9. ‘Getting close to the hearts of mothers’: medical missionaries among African women and children in Johannesburg between the wars Debby Gaitskell 10. ‘Dangerous Motherhood’: maternity care and the gendered construction of Afrikaner identity, 1904-1939 Marijke du Toit 11. ‘That welfare warfare’: sectarianism in infant welfare in Australia, 1918-1939 Philippa Mein Smith 12. The costs of modern motherhood to low income families in interwar Britain Elizabeth Peretz; Bibliography; Index