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Hush Little Baby details the transformation of infant sleep from an unremarkable event to a precarious stage of life that attracted interest from medical experts, artists, parents, and entrepreneurs. Ventura shows how ideas about babies’ sleep that circulated in nineteenth-century France created many of the expectations keeping parents awake today.



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“Hush Little Baby is path-breaking in its use of material culture – baby cradles, bedding, clothing – to explore the development of ideas around infant sleep and their relationship to art. Gal Ventura reads both images and texts skilfully, with reference to theoretical modes of understanding, showing how they created many of the standards and expectations that still keep parents awake today.” Sarah Curtis, San Francisco State University

Hush Little Baby The Invention of Infant Sleep

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      Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
      Publication Date: 15/07/2023
      ISBN13: 9780228017295, 978-0228017295
      ISBN10: 0228017297
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Hush Little Baby details the transformation of infant sleep from an unremarkable event to a precarious stage of life that attracted interest from medical experts, artists, parents, and entrepreneurs. Ventura shows how ideas about babies’ sleep that circulated in nineteenth-century France created many of the expectations keeping parents awake today.



      Trade Review

      “Hush Little Baby is path-breaking in its use of material culture – baby cradles, bedding, clothing – to explore the development of ideas around infant sleep and their relationship to art. Gal Ventura reads both images and texts skilfully, with reference to theoretical modes of understanding, showing how they created many of the standards and expectations that still keep parents awake today.” Sarah Curtis, San Francisco State University

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