Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950 by Susan L. Smith

Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950

Asian American Experience (University of Illinois)

Susan L. Smith

280 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender health history informative medium-paced
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In the late nineteenth century, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession as part of Japan's modernizing quest for empire. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural broke...

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