Research Catalog

Title

Make room for daddy : the journey from waiting room to birthing room / Judith Walzer Leavitt.

Author

Leavitt, Judith Walzer.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.

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Details

Description

xi, 385 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s."[book cover].

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Childbirth > United States > History > 20th century
• Fatherhood > United States > History > 20th century
• Father and child
• Newborn infants
• Labor, Obstetric > history
• History, 20th Century
• Parturition
• Father-Child Relations
• Fathers > psychology
• Infant, Newborn
• Childbirth
• Fatherhood
• Soziokultureller Wandel
• Vaterbild
• Vaterschaft
• Geburt
• Zwangerschap
• Vaders
• Geboorte
• Psychologische aspecten
• Pasgeborenen
• United States
• USA
• USA

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-365) and index.

Contents

Introduction : men matter -- Alone among strangers : the medicalization of childbirth -- Keeping vigil : fathers in waiting rooms -- The best backrubber : fathers move into labor rooms -- He wants to know : prenatal education for fathers -- Peaceful and confident : mothers and fathers in labor rooms -- Side by side : men move into delivery rooms -- We did it : together in delivery and birthing rooms -- Epilogue : expectant fathers' expectations.

ISBN

• 9780807832554
• 0807832553
• 9780807871683
• 0807871680

LCCN

2008050473

OCLC

• ocn261174624
• 261174624
• SCSB-1516003

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library