{"product_id":"baby-trouble-in-the-last-best-west-9781442613942","title":"Baby Trouble in the Last Best West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReproduction\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaby Trouble in the Last Best West \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the ways that women’s childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta. Kaler utilizes censuses, newspaper reports, social work case files, and personal letters to illuminate the ordeals that women, men, and babies were subjected to as Albertans debated childbearing. Through the lens of reproduction, Kaler offers a vivid and engaging analysis of how colonialism, racism, nationalism, medicalization, and evolving gender politics contributed to Alberta’s imaginative economy of reproduction. Kaler investigates five different episodes of baby trouble: the emergence of obstetrics as a political issue, the drive for eugenic sterilization, unmarried childbearing and rescue homes for unmar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures        Acknowledgements        List of Figures    Acknowledgements     Chapter 1 - Introduction        Chapter 2 - The Little Immigrant Who Comes Into Our Homes: The Material Conditions of Childbirth         Chapter 3 - Treasures: Multiple Economies of Reproduction at the Beulah Rescue Home         Chapter 4 - Mothers' Duties: Eugenics, Sterilization and the United Farm Women of Alberta         Chapter 5 - \"Perhaps You May Think Me Independent\": The Right to a Mothers' Allowance         Chapter 6 - Unless the Infant Lives, the National Gain is Nil: Infant Mortality as Failed Reproduction         Conclusion    References     Notes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408351240535,"sku":"9781442613942","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/baby-trouble-in-the-last-best-west-9781442613942","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}