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Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African-American and Jewish Women

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Dr Benjamin Spock's 1946 publication Baby and Child Care signaled the pervasive influence of medicalized motherhood. In this text, the author conducted interviews with African American and Jewish women who raised children in the 1930s and 1940s to see how they engaged with these ideas.

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