Japanese American midwives : culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950

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    • Smith, Susan L.

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Japanese American midwives : culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950

Susan L. Smith

(The Asian American experience)

University of Illinois Press, c2005

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-269) and index

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: cloth ISBN 9780252030055

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The separate but unequal politics of health affecting American minority women
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: pbk ISBN 9780252072475

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In the late nineteenth century, Japan's modernizing quest for empire transformed midwifery into a new woman's profession. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei women. They actively participated in the creation of Japanese American community and culture as preservers of Japanese birthing customs and agents of cultural change. Japanese American Midwives reveals the dynamic relationship between this welfare state and the history of women and health. Susan L. Smith blends midwives' individual stories with astute analysis to demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's caregiving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics. By setting the history of Japanese American midwives in this larger context, Smith reveals little-known ethnic, racial, and regional aspects of women's history and the history of medicine.

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