Poor and Pregnant in Paris

Poor and Pregnant in Paris
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0813517796
ISBN-13 : 9780813517797
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Poor and Pregnant in Paris by : Rachel G. Fuchs

In their attempt to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in some respects helped shape it. Rachel Fuchs reveals who these women were and how they survived. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual hospital records and court testimonies, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences, their use of charity and welfare, and their recourse to abortion and infanticide as desperate alternatives to motherhood. Fuchs also provides a comprehensive description of philanthropic and welfare institutions, and outlines the relationship between the developing welfare state and official conceptions of womanhood. She traces the evolution of a new morality among policymakers in which secular views, medical hygiene, and a new focus on the protection of children replaced religious morality as a driving force in policy formation. Combining social, intellectual, and medical history, this study of poor mothers illuminates both class and gender relations in Paris and brings to light the connection between social policy and the way ordinary women lived their lives. Fuchs's book enriches contemporary debates about maternity leave, abortion rights, and national health care initiatives. Book jacket.

Bébé Day by Day

Bébé Day by Day
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9781101616994
ISBN-13 : 1101616997
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Bébé Day by Day by : Pamela Druckerman

À la carte wisdom from the international bestseller Bringing up Bébé In BRINGING UP BÉBÉ, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm parents. She set out to learn how the French achieve all this, while telling the story of her own young family in Paris. BÉBÉ DAY BY DAY distills the lessons of BRINGING UP BÉBÉ into an easy-to-read guide for parents and caregivers. How do you teach your child patience? How do you get him to like broccoli? How do you encourage your baby to sleep through the night? How can you have a child and still have a life? Alongside these time-tested lessons of French parenting are favorite recipes straight from the menus of the Parisian crèche and winsome drawings by acclaimed French illustrator Margaux Motin. Witty, pithy and brimming with common sense, BÉBÉ DAY BY DAY offers a mix of practical tips and guiding principles, to help parents find their own way.

French Children Don't Throw Food

French Children Don't Throw Food
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9780552779173
ISBN-13 : 0552779172
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis French Children Don't Throw Food by : Pamela Druckerman

What British parent hasn't noticed, on visiting France, how well-behaved French children are compared to our own? Pamela Druckerman, who lives in Paris with three young children, has had years of observing her French friends and neighbours, and with wit and style, is ideally placed to teach us the basics of French parenting."

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781590178973
ISBN-13 : 1590178971
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by : Barbara Comyns

“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can’t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn’t make up for her husband’s indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia’s artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.

Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 052162102X
ISBN-13 : 9780521621021
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe by : Rachel G. Fuchs

This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying particular attention to the texture of women's everyday lives. She shows their strength as they attempted to structure a life and set of relationships within a social order, culture, community, and the law. Within a climate of calamities, the poor relied on their own resourcefulness and community connections where the boundaries between the private and public were indistinguishable, and on a system of exchange and reciprocity to help them fashion their culture of expediencies. This accessible synthesis introduces readers to conflicting interpretations of major historic developments and evaluates those interpretations. It will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban history and social and family history.

Healthy Beginnings

Healthy Beginnings
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Publisher : International Labour Organization
Total Pages : 125
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ISBN-10 : 9789221152385
ISBN-13 : 9221152383
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Healthy Beginnings by : Jane Paul

Improving maternal health and reducing child mortality are among the eight UN Millennium Development Goals. This publication contains guidance on maternity protection in the workplace, focusing on measures that can be taken to establish a decent workplace and to identify workplace risks. The starting point is the Maternity Protection Convention (No. 183), adopted by the International Labour Conference in 2000 and its accompanying Recommendation (No. 191). The guide is intended for general use as a reference tool for employers, workers, trade union leaders, occupation health and safety advisors, labour inspectors and others involved in workplace health and maternity protection.

Nursing History Review, Volume 4

Nursing History Review, Volume 4
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0812214536
ISBN-13 : 9780812214536
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Nursing History Review, Volume 4 by : Joan E. Lynaugh

The official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing

Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood

Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9780252090011
ISBN-13 : 0252090012
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood by : Christine Adams

This far-reaching study of maternal societies in post-revolutionary France focuses on the philanthropic work of the Society for Maternal Charity, the most prominent organization of its kind. Administered by middle-class and elite women and financed by powerful families and the government, the Society offered support to poor mothers, helping them to nurse and encouraging them not to abandon their children. In Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood, Christine Adams traces the Society's key role in shaping notions of maternity and in shifting the care of poor families from the hands of charitable volunteers with religious-tinged social visions to paid welfare workers with secular goals such as population growth and patriotism. Adams plumbs the origin and ideology of the Society and its branches, showing how elite women in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rouen, Marseille, Dijon, and Limoges tried to influence the maternal behavior of women and families with lesser financial means and social status. A deft analysis of the philosophy and goals of the Society details the members' own notions of good mothering, family solidarity, and legitimate marriages that structured official, elite, and popular attitudes concerning gender and poverty in France. These personal attitudes, Adams argues, greatly influenced public policy and shaped the country's burgeoning social welfare system.

A Great Improvisation

A Great Improvisation
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages : 530
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ISBN-10 : 9781429907996
ISBN-13 : 1429907991
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis A Great Improvisation by : Stacy Schiff

Soon to be a streaming series ● In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin--seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French--convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. When Franklin stepped onto French soil, he well understood he was embarking on the greatest gamble of his career. By virtue of fame, charisma, and ingenuity, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies, French informers, and hostile colleagues; engineered the Franco-American alliance of 1778; and helped to negotiate the peace of 1783. The eight-year French mission stands not only as Franklin's most vital service to his country but as the most revealing of the man. In A Great Improvisation, Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. From these pages emerge a particularly human and yet fiercely determined Founding Father, as well as a profound sense of how fragile, improvisational, and international was our country's bid for independence.

Lust in Translation

Lust in Translation
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781101666920
ISBN-13 : 1101666927
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Lust in Translation by : Pamela Druckerman

Compared to the citizens of just about every other nation, Americans are the least adept at having affairs, have the most trouble enjoying them, and suffer the most in their aftermath and Pamela Druckerman has the facts to prove it. The journalist's surprising findings include: Russian spouses don't count beach resort flings as infidelity South Africans consider drunkenness an adequate excuse for extramarital sex Japanese businessmen believe, "If you pay, it's not cheating." Voyeuristic and packed with eyebrow-raising statistics and interviews, Lust in Translation is her funny and fact-filled world tour of infidelity that will give new meaning to the phrase "practicing monogamy."