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Amy Kaler - Baby Trouble in the Last Best West: Making New People in Alberta, 1905-1939 - 9781442645684 - V9781442645684
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Baby Trouble in the Last Best West: Making New People in Alberta, 1905-1939

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Description for Baby Trouble in the Last Best West: Making New People in Alberta, 1905-1939 hardcover. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women's childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JHBK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.

Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm.

Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women’s childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta. Kaler utilizes censuses, newspaper reports, social work case files, and personal letters to illuminate the ordeals that women, men, and babies were subjected to as Albertans debated childbearing. Through the lens of reproduction, Kaler offers a vivid and engaging analysis of how colonialism, racism, nationalism, medicalization, and evolving gender politics ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442645684
SKU
V9781442645684
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Amy Kaler
Amy Kaler is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

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