Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America Into the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781108415002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Janet Golden

Opis

Reveals how babies shaped modern American life, including the rise of the medical authority, consumerism, social welfare, and popular psychology.

Recenzje

'A fresh new look at twentieth-century America, told through the lens of society's least powerful and most vulnerable class of individuals … There is much here to interest and intrigue historians of childhood, the family, and public health. Scholars will no doubt appreciate the questions her book raises for thinking about the nature of modernity, the processes involved in the creation of the twentieth-century 'baby,' as well as the limits and possibilities in extending agency to infants. Additionally, Golden has laid an important foundation for anyone who wishes to seriously consider the ways in which even the youngest and least powerful among us have shaped and reflected our personal, cultural, and political values.' Jessica Martucci, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

1. Infant lives and deaths: incubators, demographics, photographs; 2. Valuing babies: economics, social welfare, progressives; 3. Helping citizen baby: the US Children's Bureau, good advice, better babies; 4. Bringing up babies I: giving, spending, saving, praying; 5. Bringing up babies II: health and illness, food and drink; 6. Helping baby citizens: traditional healers, patent medicines, local cultures; 7. The inner lives of babies: infant psychology; 8. Babies' changing times: depression, war, peace; 9. Baby boom babies; Coda. Kissing and dismissing babies: American exceptionalism.