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LARA FREIDENFELDS

Historian of Health, Reproduction, and Parenting in America

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    Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (review)
    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Apr 25, 2019

    Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (review)

    It’s a rare academic history book that tempts me to binge-read.  Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth is one of those special finds. Admittedly, Kline writes about a topic I find inherently fascinating: the re-emergence of home birth in the United States in the latter decades of the twentieth century and early decades of the twenty-first.  Kline’s approach is typical of nuanced, heavily-researched academic history in many ways, with topical chapters that prov
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Mar 3, 2016

    Clio Talks: An Interview with Historian Jessica Martucci

    This week I had the pleasure of interviewing historian Jessica Martucci at length about her new book, Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America. We discussed the Mommy Wars, the politics of pumping, and the importance of playing devil’s advocate with lactivists and skeptics alike. What follows is a snippet of our conversation about La Leche League, a grassroots breastfeeding support and advocacy group that began in 1956 and quickly grew into a nation
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Jul 23, 2014

    If You’re Not My Kid, Please Don’t Call Me “Mom”

    The dentist peered in my child’s mouth, then turned to me. “Hey, Mom, you did a good job, no cavities!” I brought my kids for a check-up recently, and our wonderful pediatric dentist warmly complimented me. But why on earth did he call me that? And why did it irk me? Read the rest at Nursing Clio #parenting #mother #MomsRising #BettyFriedan #history #motherhood #mom #modern #PhilipWylie #mothering #RebeccaJoPlant #MommyBlogger #Lamaze #Victorian
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