Home Birth in Maine
Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Honors Theses Student Research 2012 “Called Her Women Together” Home Birth in Maine Margaret Kruithoff Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses Part of the American Studies Commons, and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons Colby College theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed or downloaded from this site for the purposes of research and scholarship. Reproduction or distribution for commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the author. Recommended Citation Kruithoff, Margaret, "“Called Her Women Together” Home Birth in Maine" (2012). Honors Theses. Paper 644. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/644 This Honors Thesis (Open Access) is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Research at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. “Called Her Women Together” Home Birth in Maine Margaret Kruithoff American Studies Colby College May 2012 Table of Contents Part I Introduction 1. A Short Cultural History of Childbirth in America 2. Books and Bodies: Reimagining Women’s Health and Childbirth in the 1960s and ‘70s Part II 3. An Intimate Sort of Healthcare: Contemporary Midwifery in Maine 4. Home Birth 5. Being Born at Home 6. Beginning with Birth 2 Acknowledgements Nine months ago, I set out to write a thesis on childbirth: hippies having their babies in the woods, hospital politics, and women’s rights. The final product is very different than what I had intended. Instead of finding crazy hippies in the woods, I found a community of kind and skilled midwives and loving, openhearted mothers.
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