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Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century
- Title
- Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century / Janet Golden Rutgers University - Camden.
- Author
- Golden, Janet Lynne, 1951-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies during the twentieth century. She examines how babies shaped American society and culture and led their families into the modern world to become more accepting of scientific medicine, active consumers, open to new theories of human psychological development, and welcoming of government advice and programs. Golden also connects the reduction in infant mortality to the increasing privatization of American lives. She also examines the influence of cultural traditions and religious practices upon the diversity of infant lives, exploring the ways class, race, region, gender, and community shaped life in the nursery and household.
- Subjects
- Maternal and infant welfare
- Child rearing
- Parent and infant
- Infants
- 1900-1999
- History
- Maternal and infant welfare > United States > History > 20th century
- United States
- Child rearing > United States > History > 20th century
- Parent and infant > United States > History > 20th century
- Infants > United States > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Did babies make us modern? -- Infant lives and deaths : incubators, demographics, photographs -- Valuing babies : economics, social welfare, progressives -- Helping citizen baby : the u.s. children's bureau, good advice, better babies -- Bringing up babies I : giving, spending, saving, praying -- Bringing up babies II : health & illness, food & drink -- Helping baby citizens : traditional healers, patent medicines, local cultures -- The inner lives of babies : infant psychology -- Babies' changing times : depression, war, peace -- Baby boom babies -- Kissing and dismissing babies : American exceptionalism.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5719
- ISBN
- 9781108415002
- 1108415008
- 9781108400077
- 1108400078
- LCCN
- 2017054703
- OCLC
- 1009182409
- Author
- Golden, Janet Lynne, 1951- author.
- Title
- Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century / Janet Golden Rutgers University - Camden.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5719