Download or read book Rosina the Midwife written by Jessica Kluthe and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for a 2014 Alberta Literary Award Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States, in search of work. Many of them never returned to Italy. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina, a Calabrian matriarch, who worked as a midwife in an area where only one doctor served three villages. She was also the only member of the Russo family to remain in Italy after the mass migration of the 1950s. Written by Rosina's great-great- granddaughter, Rosina, the Midwife is a charming memoir that is at once a Canadian story and an Italian one. Through Kluthe's meticulous research and great insight, we see her great-grandfather Generoso labouring through the harsh Edmonton winter in order to buy passage to Canada for his wife and children; we glimpse her grandmother Rose huddled in a third-class cabin, sick from the motion of the boat; and we watch, teary-eyed, as her great-great-grandmother Rosina is forced to say goodbye, one by one, to the people she loves.
Download or read book Bog Tender written by George Szanto and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to nature’s influence on the creative process, Bog Tender is a stunning memoir that explores nature and the act of writing, and where the two intersect. Accomplished fiction author George Szanto lives and writes on a bog that cuts his property in two. Rather than filling in the wetland, he has embraced it as a site of inspiration. Pieced together in 12 chapters—one for each month of the year—this enchanting narrative explores how Szanto’s writing process is affected by the bog’s transformations throughout the seasons. Through each chapter, the author searches for the moments of greatest consequence to him, from his parents’ escape from Hitler’s Vienna to his time spent studying in Germany, and from meeting his future wife and becoming a parent, to his adventures in Mexico. Set in a place where city is left behind for rural space, Bog Tender is about home and the intricate connections that evolve under and above the water.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Illinois State Board of Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by Illinois State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wives and Midwives written by Carol Laderman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely-praised study, Carol Laderman provides a vivid picture of the daily life of rural Malays as she focuses on their dietary practices and the ritual and medical aspects of childbirth procedures. Apprenticed to a village midwife and a local shaman, she was able to observe a traditional culture adapting to modern practices.
Download or read book A Memory of Muskets written by Kathleen Ernst and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin's first Civil War reenactment, but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle instead. And when a reenactor is found dead at one of the historic site's German farms, Chloe's boyfriend, cop Roelke McKenna, suspects murder. The more Roelke learns about reenacting, the more he fears that a killer will join the ranks. Then Chloe discovers a disturbing secret about Roelke's Civil War–era ancestors. Together they struggle to solve crimes past and present...before Chloe loses her job and another reenactor loses his life. Praise: "Veteran Ernst provides a new perspective on the Civil War woven together with a compelling mystery." —Kirkus Reviews "Extremely well-written."—Suspense Magazine "Kathleen Ernst knows how to spin a tale, weave an intricate plot, and hide clues in the embroidery. A Memory of Muskets takes two stories separated by more than a century and knits them together into one thoroughly satisfying read."—Kathy Lynn Emerson, Agatha Award-winning author of How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries, Murder in the Merchant's Hall, and other historical mysteries
Download or read book Proceedings of the Connecticut Medical Society written by Connecticut Medical Society and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Woman s work in the field of medicine written by New York (N.Y.). College of Midwifery of the City of New York and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Woman s Work in the Field of Medicine written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Technique of Contraception written by James Fryer Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telling Truths Storying Motherhood written by Sheena Wilson and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood is a collection of creative non-fiction essays. Through story, contributing authors explore how expectations collide with the complex realities we face as we mother. They illustrate how mothering is inextricably linked to the positions we occupy within our specific socio-cultural contexts; how our versions of mothering are transformed in relationship to the children we raise, long for, and mourn. Together, as writers and readers, as mothers and parents and communities, we are rewriting and rereading and reinventing what it means to mother and parent our children at this moment in history. This anthology is an important contribution to ongoing dialogues that resist traditional expectations around motherhood.
Download or read book Keeping A Promise written by C A Hunter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the war with France ended, Edward Michael Jeremiah Bennington the 8th Marquess of Sheffield, decided to tour the Continent. While travelling in central France he encounters a coach accident. As the occupant of the coach lies dying in Edwards arms, he begs a promise of the young Marquess. Edward assures the dying man he will do anything to keep his promise Rosina Anne Margaret Henson, is excited to finally have her debut season. Her uncle The Duke of Manchester, has been her guardian for the last two years, since her fathers death. But the Duke must travel on urgent family business to the Continent. The Duke is unaware, Lady Beatrice his younger sister, has plans for their niece. Unaware of her Aunt's plans for her, Rosina happily travels to London with her Aunt Beatrice, and Beatrice's husband Albert. She is excited at the prospect of the balls, parties and entertainments. Most of all she hopes to make some new friends, and maybe even to find love.
Download or read book Catching Babies written by Charlotte G. Borst and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childbirth is a quintessential family event that simultaneously holds great promise and runs the risk of danger. By the late nineteenth century, the birthing room had become a place where the goals of the new scientific professional could be demonstrated, but where traditional female knowledge was in conflict with the new ways. Here the choice of attendants and their practices defined gender, ethnicity, class, and the role of the professional. Using the methodology of social science theory, particularly quantitative statistical analysis and historical demography, Charlotte Borst examines the effect of gender, culture, and class on the transition to physician-attended childbirth. Earlier studies have focused on physician opposition to midwifery, devoting little attention to the training for and actual practice of midwifery. As a result, until now we knew little about the actual conditions of the midwife's education and practice. Catching Babies is the first study to examine the move to physician-attended birth within the context of a particular community. It focuses on four representative counties in Wisconsin to study both midwives and physicians within the context of their community. Borst finds that midwives were not pushed out of practice by elitist or misogynist obstetricians. Instead, their traditional, artisanal skills ceased to be valued by a society that had come to embrace the model of disinterested, professional science. The community that had previously hired midwives turned to physicians who shared ethnic and cultural values with the very midwives they replaced.
Download or read book Neo Gothic Narratives written by Sarah E. Maier and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether there is room for humour besides the sobriety and horror in these narratives across various media. What attracts us to the Gothic that makes us want to resurrect, reinvent, echo it? Why do we let the Gothic redefine us? Why do we let it haunt us? Does it speak to us through intertexuality, self-reflectivity, metafiction, immersion, affect? Are we reclaiming the history of women and other subalterns in the Gothic that had been denied in other forms of history? Are we revisiting the trauma of English colonisation and seeking national identity? Or are we simply tourists who enjoy cruising through the otherworld? The essays in this volume investigate both the readerly experience of Neo-Gothic narratives as well as their writerly pastiche.
