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008			170321s2016 onc ob 001 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aF1078 _b.B339 2016
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aKaler, Amy, _d1966- _e1
245	1	0	_aBaby trouble in the last best West : _bmaking new people in Alberta, 1905-1939 / _cAmy Kaler.
260			_aToronto ; _aBuffalo ; _aLondon : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource
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505	0	0	_aCover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Little Immigrant Who Comes into Our Homes: The Material Conditions of Childbirth; 3 Treasures: Multiple Economies of Reproduction at the Beulah Rescue Home; 4 Mothers' Duties: Eugenics, Sterilization, and the United Farm Women of Alberta; 5 "Perhaps You May Think Me Independent": The Right to Mothers' Allowance; 6 Unless the Infant Lives, the National Gain Is Nil: Infant Mortality as Failed Reproduction; 7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
520	0		_a"Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn't conform to the norm. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women's childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta. Kaler utilizes censuses, newspaper reports, social work case files, and personal letters to illuminate the ordeals that women, men, and babies were subjected as Albertans debated childbearing. Through the lens of reproduction, Amy Kaler offers a vivid and engaging analysis of how colonialism, racism, nationalism, medicalization, and evolving gender politics contributed to Alberta's imaginative economy of reproduction. Kaler investigates five different episodes of "baby trouble" including: the emergence of obstetrics as a political issue, the drive for eugenic sterilization, unmarried childbearing and "rescue homes" for unmarried mothers, state-sponsored allowances for single mothers, and high infant mortality. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West will transport the reader to the turmoil of Alberta's early years while examining the complexity of settler society-building and gender struggles."-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aReproductive rights _zAlberta _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aHuman reproduction _xSocial aspects _zAlberta _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWomen _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zAlberta _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSingle mothers _zAlberta _xSocial conditions _y20th century.
650		0	_aParenthood _xSocial aspects _zAlberta _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aIllegitimacy _zAlberta _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aInfants _xDeath _xSocial aspects _zAlberta _xHistory _y20th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell