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Cott, Nancy, ed.
History of Women in the United States: Historical Articles on Women's
Lives and Activities.
20 volumes. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1994.
A multi-volume, scholarly collection by theme, including Volume 2 - Household
Constitution and Family Relationships, Volume 3 - Domestic Relations
and Law, Volume 4 - Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work, Volume
5 - The Intersection of Work and Family Life, Volume 6 - Working
on the Land, Volume 11 - Women's Bodies: Health and Childbirth,
Volume 15 - Women and War, and Volume 18 - Women and Politics.
———, ed.
Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women.
2nd ed. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, 1996.
Evans, Sarah.
Born for Liberty : A History of Women in America.
New York: The Free Press, 1989.
Hufton, Olwen.
The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women In Western Europe.
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1996.
Kerber, Linda, and Jane
DeHart Mathews, eds.
Women's America: Refocusing the Past. 4th ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Kerber, Linda.
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
Moynihan, Ruth, Cynthia
Russett, and Laurie Crumpacker, eds.
Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women.
Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska, 1993.
Ruiz, Vicki, and Ellen DuBois.
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women's History.
2nd ed.
New York: Routledge, 1994.
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Cressy, David.
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor
and Stuart England.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Daniels, Bruce C.
Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Doten, Dana.
The Art of Bundling, Being an Inquiry into the Nature & Origins of
the Curious but Universal Folkcustom.
The Countryman Press and Farrar
& Rinehart, 1938.
D'Emilio, John, and Estelle
B. Freedman.
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America.
New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Grossberg, Michael.
Governing the Hearth: Law and Family in Nineteenth-Century America.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina press, 1985.
MacMarlane, Alan.
Marriage and Love in England, 1300-1840.
Oxford, England: Basil
Blackwell, 1986.
Nelson, William E.
Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts
Society, 1760-1830.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Rothman, Ellen K.
Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America.
New York:
Basic Books, 1984.
Smith, Daniel Scott, and
Michael Hindus.
"Pre-marital Pregnancy in America, 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation,"
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 4 (1975).
Stabler, Lois K., ed.
Very Poor and of a Lo Make: The Journal of Abner Sanger covering the
years 1774-1782 in Keene, New Hampshire, and 1791-1794 in Dublin, New
Hampshire.
Historical Society of Cheshire County. Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall,
1986. Transcription of the original. Many entries that students could
compare with Martha Ballard's diary.]
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New
England, 1650-1750.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Wall, Helena M.
Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
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Beard, Frank and Bette Smith.
Maine's Historic Places.
Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1982.
Churchill, Edwin A., Joel
W. Eastman, and Richard W. Judd, eds.
Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present.
Orono:
University of Maine press, 1995.
Clark, Charles E.
The Eastern Frontier: The Settlement of Northern New England, 1610-1763.
Hanover: The University Press of New England, 1983.
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The Public Prints: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665-1740.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Clark, Charles E., James
S. Leamon, and Karen Bowden, eds.
Maine in the Early Republic: From Revolution to Statehood.
Hanover: University Press of New England, 1988.
Leamon, James S.
Revolution Downeast: The War for Independence in Maine.
Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
Noyes, R. Webb.
A Bibliography of Maine Imprints to 1820.
Stonington, Maine.
North, James W.
The History of Augusta, Maine (reprint of 1870 edition).
Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1981.
Sprague, Laura Felych, ed.
Agreeable Situations: Society, Commerce, and Art in Southern Maine,
1780-1830.
Kennebunk, Maine: The Brick Store Museum, 1987.
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Benes, Peter, ed.
The Farm: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings
June 14-15, 1986.
Boston: Dublin Seminar and Boston University, 1986.
————.
House and Home: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual
Proceedings 1988.
Boston: Dublin Seminar and Boston University, 1988.
Bushman, Richard L.
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities.
New York: Vintage
Books, 1992.
Innes, Stephen, ed.
Work and Labor in Early America.
Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1988.
Karpel, Bernard, ed.
Arts in America: A Bibliography, Vol. 2 Painting and Graphic Arts.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.
Larkin, Jack.
The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840.
New York: Haper and Row,
1988.
Nylander, Jane.
Our Own Snug Fireside: Intersections of Image and Reality in Perceptions
of the New England Home, 1750-1860.
New York: Knopf, 1992.
Schlereth, Thomas J.
Material Culture Studies In America: an anthology, selected, arranged,
and introduced by Thomas J. Schlereth.
Nashville, Tennessee: The American Association for State and Local
History, 1982.
Sloat, Caroline, ed.
Meet Your Neighbors: New England Portraits, Painters, and Society.
Sturbridge, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Smith, Barbara Clark.
After the Revolution: The Smithsonian History of Everyday Life in the
Eighteenth Century.
New York, Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Andrews, William.
Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives.
Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Begos, Jane Dupree, ed.
A Women's Diaries Miscellany.
Weston, CT: Magic Circle Press, 1989.
Benstock, Shari, ed.
The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Traditions.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Culley, Margo, ed.
A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to
the Present.
New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 1985
Dodge, Elizabeth and Elizabeth
Whaley.
Weaving in the Women: Transforming the High School English Curriculum.
Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1994.
Earle, Alice Morse.
School-Life in Colonial Days.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1898.
Franklin, Penelope.
Private Pages: Diaries of American Women, 1830's-1970's.
New York:
Ballantine, 1985.
Freibert, Lucy M. and Barbara
A. White, eds.
Hidden Hands: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1790-1870.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1985.
Gannett, Cinthia.
Gender and The Journal.
Albany: State University of New York Press,
1992.
Harris, Sharon M., ed.
American Women Writers to 1800.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hobbs, Catherine, ed.
Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Hoffman, Leonore and Margo
Culley.
Women's Personal Narratives.
New York: Modern Language Association,
1985.
Simons, Judy.
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia
Woolf.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990.
Soloman, Barbara Miller.
In the Company of Educated Women.
New Haven: Yale University Press,
1985.
Stryker-Rodda, Harriet.
Understanding Colonial Handwriting.
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986.
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Abrash, Barbara.
Historians and Filmmakers: Toward Collaboration.
New York: The Institute for Research in History, 1983.
Barnouw, Eric.
Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction film.
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1983.
Carnes, Mark, ed.
Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies.
New York: A Society
of American Historians book from Henry Holt, 1995.
Dolan, Sean B., ed.
Telling the Story: The Media, The Public, and American History, Proceedings
of a Conference Held April 23-24, 1993, Boston, MA.
Boston: New England
Foundation for the Humanities, 1994.
Ferro, Marc.
Cinema and History.
Translated by Naomi Greene. Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1988.
Grindon, Leger.
Shadows of the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film.
Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1994.
O'Connor John E.
Image as Artifact: The Historical Analysis of Film and Television.
Krieger Publishing Company, 1990.
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Teaching History with Film and Television.
Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1987.
Rosenstone, Robert, ed.
Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past.
Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1995.
———.
Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History.
Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Taves, Brian.
The Romance of Adventure: The Genre of Historical Adventure Movies.
Jackson Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.
Toplin, Robert Brent, ed.
Hollywood as Mirror: Changing Views of "Outsiders" and "Enemies" in
American Movies.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Winston, Brian.
Claiming the Real: The Documentary Film Revisited.
London: British
Film Institute, BFI Publishing, 1995.
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Apple, Rima D., ed.
Women, Health, & Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.
Employs a variety of significant readings and sound historical feminist
scholarship. Includes sections on Definitions of Health and Disease, Orthodox
Health Care, Alternative Health Care, Social and Political Dynamics of
Women's Health Concerns, and Health Care Providers. Good bibliography
of works concerning women and health.
Arney, William R.
Power and the Profession of Obstetrics.
Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1982.
Arnup, Catherine, Andree
Levesque, and Ruth Roach Pierson, eds.
Delivering Motherhood: Maternal Ideologies and Practices in the 19th
and 20th Centuries.
London: Routledge, 1990.
Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate.
Not of Woman Born: Representations of Cesarean Birth in Medieval and
Renaissance Culture.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Borst, Charlotte.
Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Looks at a time when professionalized physicians and a health-care system
split by gender gained more control over midwifery.
Cianfrani, Theodore.
A Short History of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1960.
Cressy, David.
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in
Tudor and Stuart England.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Shows the English antecedents to Martha Ballard's work as a midwife
in Maine. Looks at how society mediated important life passages.
Cushing, John D., ed.
The First Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1981.
A reprint of early laws, some of which regulated birth, sexuality, and
marriage.
Cutter, Irving S., and Henry
R. Viets.
A Short History of Midwifery.
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1964.
A male-heavy history emphasizing clinical obstetrics and the transition
to male practitioners from female midwives. Ranges from the fifteenth
to the nineteenth centuries, with much biographical information about
European and American man-midwives.
DeVries, Raymond G.
Regulating Birth: Midwives, Medicine and the Law.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
Eakins, Pamela S., ed.
The American Way of Birth.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
Erlen, Jonathan.
The History of the Health Care Sciences and Health Care, 1700-1980:
A Selective Annotated Bibliography.
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984.
Part of the Smithsonian Institution's series Bibliographies of
the History of Science and Technology. Voluminous, with a section on
midwifery. Predates much recent, significant work on midwifery.
Gelbart, Nina Rattner.
The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
A new study of the eighteenth-century woman appointed by France's
Louis XV to travel and teach country midwives their trade. Tells much
about practices of the time as well as the power and politics of medical
practice.
Gelis, Jacques.
History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern
Europe.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.
Golden, Janet.
A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle.
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Leavitt, Judith Walzer.
Brought to Bed: Child-bearing in America, 1750-1950.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986
A ground-breaking look at how social and medical practices such as the
search for painkillers in a clinical setting changed childbearing as
a central part of female experience. Shows how women themselves were
agents of change in childbirth practices.
———, ed.
Women and Health in America. 2nd rev. ed., 1999.
Leavitt, Judith Walzer and
R.L. Numbus, eds.
Sickness and health in America. 3rd ed.
Lewis, Judith Schneid.
In the Family Way: Childbearing in the British Aristocracy, 1760-1860.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986.
Logan, Onnie Lee, and Katherine
Clark.
Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
An as-told-to narrative of a "granny," an African-American lay-midwife's
work in the twentieth century. She said, "I want to show that I knew
what I knew."
Loudon, Irvine.
Death in Childbirth: An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal
Mortality, 1800-1950.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
An academic study stuffed with numbers correlating with issues and causes
around maternal mortality. Argues that home deliveries by trained midwives
made European maternal mortality rates lower than in Britain and the
United States.
Marland, Hilary, ed.
The Art of Midwifery: Early Modern Midwives in Europe.
New York: Routledge, 1993.
Training, practices, and regulation of midwives varied from country
to country. Scholarly essays look at England, France, Germany, Spain,
and Holland.
———, trans.
and ed.
"Mother and Child Were Saved": The Memoirs (1693-1740) of the Frisian
Midwife Catharina Schrader.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987.
Marland, Hilary and
Mave Rafferty, eds.
Midwives, Society, and Childbirth.
Massachusetts General Court.
The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts, 1648 (Reprint).
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929.
A reprint of early laws, some of which regulated birth, sexuality, and
marriage.
McMillan, Sally.
Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Infant Rearing.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
The Male Midwife and
the Female Doctor: The Gynecology Controversy in Nineteenth-Century America
(Reprint).
New York: Arno Press, 1974
Reprints of revealing sources from the nineteenth century that argued
for and against women in midwifery and medicine.
Melosh, Barbara.
The Physician's Hand: Work, Culture, and Conflict in American
Nursing.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
Examines the sexual division of labor that produced an almost exclusively
female nursing force. Looks at the conflicts and issues within nursing
such as resistance to professionalization, standards of control and
pay, and work relations that reflected social relations in the larger
society.
Morantz-Sanchez, Regina
Markell.
Sympathy & Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Explores the history of American women in medicine from colonial beginnings
as healers and midwives to twentieth-century challenges to "masculine"
styles of practicing medicine. Highlights the female pioneers and the
changes accompanying the movement of women into professionalized medicine.
Oakley, Ann.
Women Confined: Towards a Sociology of Childbirth.
New York: Schoken
Books, 1980.
O'Dowd, Michael, and Elliott
E. Philipp.
The History of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Robinson, Sharon A.
"A Historical development of Midwifery in the Black Community: 1600-1940,"
Journal of Nurse-Midwifery 29 (1984): 247-50.
Rooks, Judith Pence.
Midwifery and Childbirth in America.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
A text covering historical, social, and medical trends. Contains a multi-page
list of references.
Rothman, Barbara Katz.
The Encyclopedia of Childbearing.
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press,
c1993.
Scholten, Catherine.
Childbearing in American Society, 1650-1850.
New York: New York University Press, 1985.
Sullivan, Deborah A., and
Rose Weitz.
Labor Pains: Modern Midwives and Home Birth.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Traces the re-emergence of home birth attended by female midwives as
a reaction against the dominance of hospital-based, medicalized birth.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.
"Martha Moore Ballard and the Medical Challenge to Midwifery,"
in Charles E. Clark, James S. Leamon, & Karen Bowden, eds., Maine
in the Early Republic.
Hanover: University Press of New England, 1988.
An article pre-dating the book A Midwife's Tale.
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A Midwife's
Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812.
New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
Uses a sharp eye and many documents to unravel meanings hidden in the
seemingly mundane dailiness of a Maine midwife's diary entries.
Pulitzer Prize, 1991. portions
of this book can be read at this site
Wertz, Dorothy C., and Richard
W. Wertz.
Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America.
New York: Schoken Books, 1979.
From colonial America to the twentieth century. An illustrated account
that is sensitive to gender, class, scientific changes, professionalization,
and governmental regulation. One chapter covers social childbirth, like
that which Martha Ballard and her neighbors practiced. Useful footnotes
and bibliography.
Wilson, Adrian.
The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
A solid, documented historicallook at English male practitioners of
midwifery and possible reasons that they eventually superseded female
midwives.
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Adams, Alice E.
Reproducing the Womb: Images of Childbirth in Science, Feminist Theory,
and Literature.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Achterberg, J.
Woman as Healer: A Panoramic Survey of the Healing Activities of Women
from Prehistoric Times to the Present.
Boston: Shambala, 1991.
Another side of the story. Suggests where (and why) women have been
left out in many avenues of western medicine.
Austin, Robert B.
Early American Medical Imprints: A Guide to Works Printed in the United
States 1668-1820.
Washington: Department of Health and Welfare, 1961.
Booth, Martin.
Opium: A History.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Puts the use of laudanum as a pillar of eighteenth-century medicine
into a world-wide historical perspective.
Cassedy, James.
Medicine in America: A Short History.
Hopkins, 1991.
Conrad, Lawrence I., Michael
Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, and Andrew Wear.
The Western Medical Tradition: 800 B.C. to A.D. 1800.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Thorough and well-sourced text that acknowledges that western medical
history is not a straight line of unbroken progress toward the scientific,
professional, and technical. Attempts to acknowledge and integrate women
in medicine, but the overall effect is still marginal.
Cowen, David L., and William
H. Helfand.
Pharmacy: An Illustrated History.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.
A glossy, wide-ranging view that allows one to see how the native and
imported medicines in Martha Ballard's world fit into a larger
history of the substances used as medicines in Europe and the United
States.
Estes, J. Worth.
Dictionary of Protopharmacology: Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850.
Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1990.
Contains much about the medical practices of Martha Ballard's time.
King, Lester S.
The Philosophy of Medicine: The Early Eighteenth Century.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Medical treatments were based as much on philosophical systems as on
outcomes. In many instances, eighteenth-century treatments are best
understood in such a framework.
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Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William
Osler.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Loudon, Irvine, ed.
Western Medicine: An Illustrated History.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Nineteen articles by as many authors.
Porter, Dorothy, and Roy
Porter.
Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England.
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989.
Much American medical practice came by way of Britain in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.
Risse, G.B., R.L. Numbers,
and J.W. Leavitt, eds.
Medicine Without Doctors: Home Health Care in American History.
New York: Science History Publications, 1977.
Turns an eye on one of the places where women have worked invisibly
in medical history.
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