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The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife’s Tale
Laurie A. Wilkie
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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.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Acknowledgments
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Prologue
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1. Why an Archaeology of Mothering?
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2. The Perryman Family of Mobile
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Narrative Interlude I
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3. African-American Mothering and Enslavement
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Narrative Interlude II
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4. Mothering and Domesticity in Freedom: Ideology and Practice
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Narrative Interlude III
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5. Midwifery as Mother’s Work
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Narrative Interlude IV
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6. To Mother or Not to Mother
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Narrative Interlude V
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7. Midwifery and Scientific Mothering
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Narrative Interlude VI
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8. Conclusions: The Many Ideologies of African-American Motherhood
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
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