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9780415945691

The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife's Tale

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415945691

  • ISBN10:

    0415945690

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-09-03
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. The female head of this household, Lucrecia Perryman, turned to midwifery to support her family and as a midwife, became a vehicle for transmitting cultural, social, and political knowledge regarding mothering performance and practice to the broader African-American community.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue xvii
1. Why an Archaeology of Mothering? 1(14)
2. The Perryman Family of Mobile 15(40)
Narrative Interlude I
49(6)
3. African-American Mothering and Enslavement 55(24)
Narrative Interlude II
75(4)
4. Mothering and Domesticity in Freedom: Ideology and Practice 79(40)
Narrative Interlude III
115(4)
5. Midwifery as Mother's Work 119(28)
Narrative Interlude IV
143(4)
6. To Mother or Not to Mother 147(30)
Narrative Interlude V
171(6)
7. Midwifery and Scientific Mothering 177(32)
Narrative Interlude VI
204(5)
8. Conclusions: The Many Ideologies of African-American Motherhood 209(12)
Bibliography 221(14)
Index 235

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