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Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women's childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta.

Table of Contents
List 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

Baby Trouble in the Last Best West

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 9 February 2017
      ISBN-13 9781442645684
      978-1442645684
      ISBN-10 1442645687

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women's childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta.

      Table of Contents
      List 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

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