The Mistress, the Midwife, and the Medical Doctor
Pregnancy and childbirth on the plantations of the antebellum American South, 1800-1860
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3203813 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T E Tunc (0000-0002-2922-3916, Hacettepe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 395-419 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2010.489348 |
| PMID | 20607898 |
| OpenAlex | W2083764879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This article represents a step towards examining the relationship between three key figures in the antebellum American South: the plantation mistress, the slave-midwife, and the professional male physician. It elucidates how the experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, which brought women close to death, formed the basis of a deeper, positive relationship between the black and white women of the antebellum South, and assesses the ways in which the professionalization of medicine affected this reproductive bond. Evaluating such a complicated network of relationships necessitates dissecting numerous layers of social interaction, including black and white women's shared cultural experiences and solidarity as reproductive beings; the role, power, and significance of slave-midwives and other enslaved caretakers in white plantation births; the cooperation between pregnant bondswomen and plantation mistresses; and the impact that the burgeoning profession of medicine had on the procreative union between antebellum black and white women
Childbirth · Natural childbirth · Obstetrics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Pregnancy · Professionalization · Sociology · Solidarity · White (mutation) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Race, History, and American Society
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Reclaiming narratives of empowerment around Black maternal health
Transgressing biomedical and legal boundaries
Midwifery and Antenatal Care for Black Women
Expanding perspectives
Slavery
African-American Midwifery, a History and a Lament
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |