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ISBN: 9780776603872-07

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Care of Mothers and Infants in Montreal between the Wars: The Visiting Nurses of Metropolitan Life, Les Gouttes de lait, and Assistance maternelle

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At the end of the nineteenth century, by which time midwives had been practically eliminated, at least in urban areas, women’s knowledge of child rearing began to be looked down upon, and women were urged to seek and follow the advice of a doctor, both concerning their pregnancy and about child care.

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Denyse Baillargeon

Denyse Baillargeon teaches in the History Department at the Université de Montréal. She is author of Ménagères au temps de la Crise (Remue-ménage, 1991), a work which was translated into English as Making Do : Women, Family and Home in Montréal during the Great Depression (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999), and Un Québec en mal d’enfants: La médicalisation de la maternité au Québec, 1910-1970 (Remue-ménage, 2004). Her current research explores the popularization of psychological theories concerning the education of children in Quebec after the Second World War, and the interactions between women and the city.