Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940
The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of car...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case. While caring for sick and disabled family members was commonplace for women in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America, that caregiving, the caregivers' experience of it, and the medical profession's reaction to it took diverse and sometimes unexpected forms. A complex series of historical changes, Abel shows, has profoundly altered the content and cultural meaning of care. Hearts of Wisdom is an immersion into that "world of care." Drawing on antebellum slave narratives, white farm women's diaries, and public health records, Abel puts together a multifaceted picture of what caregiving meant to American women--and what it cost them--from the pre-Civil War years to the brink of America's entry into the Second World War. She shows that caregiving offered women an arena in which experience could be parlayed into expertise, while at the same time the revolution in bacteriology and the transformation of the formal health care system were weakening women's claim to that expertise.Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: 1850-1890 1. "Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888 2. An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving 3. "Tried at the Quilting Bees": Con'icts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals Part Two: 1890-1940 4. A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924 5. "Just as You Direct": Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority 6. Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the Century Reviews of this book: This excellent historical review of female caregiving within families as a transformative experience identifies conditions that make this form of human connectedness rewarding and meaningful.--J.E. Thompson, ChoiceThis is a breathtaking work in terms of its depth and its breadth. Emily Abel's research is impressive in its time frame, wide range of topics, and wonderful source material. What she has given us, for the first time, is a full-length study of the female support network, not only for childbirth but for a whole range of health issues. With her pleasing writing style and clear, readable prose, she gives us much more than mere glimpses of anonymous people--she provides the reader with a sense of the texture of human lives.--Susan L. |
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| spelling | Abel, Emily K. Verfasser aut Hearts of Wisdom American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 Emily K. Abel Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2022] © 2002 1 online resource (336 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case. While caring for sick and disabled family members was commonplace for women in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America, that caregiving, the caregivers' experience of it, and the medical profession's reaction to it took diverse and sometimes unexpected forms. A complex series of historical changes, Abel shows, has profoundly altered the content and cultural meaning of care. Hearts of Wisdom is an immersion into that "world of care." Drawing on antebellum slave narratives, white farm women's diaries, and public health records, Abel puts together a multifaceted picture of what caregiving meant to American women--and what it cost them--from the pre-Civil War years to the brink of America's entry into the Second World War. She shows that caregiving offered women an arena in which experience could be parlayed into expertise, while at the same time the revolution in bacteriology and the transformation of the formal health care system were weakening women's claim to that expertise.Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: 1850-1890 1. "Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888 2. An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving 3. "Tried at the Quilting Bees": Con'icts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals Part Two: 1890-1940 4. A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924 5. "Just as You Direct": Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority 6. Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the Century Reviews of this book: This excellent historical review of female caregiving within families as a transformative experience identifies conditions that make this form of human connectedness rewarding and meaningful.--J.E. Thompson, ChoiceThis is a breathtaking work in terms of its depth and its breadth. Emily Abel's research is impressive in its time frame, wide range of topics, and wonderful source material. What she has given us, for the first time, is a full-length study of the female support network, not only for childbirth but for a whole range of health issues. With her pleasing writing style and clear, readable prose, she gives us much more than mere glimpses of anonymous people--she provides the reader with a sense of the texture of human lives.--Susan L. In English MEDICAL / History bisacsh Aidantes naturelles Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Aidantes naturelles Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis Caregivers History 19th century United States Caregivers History 20th century United States Femmes Conditions sociales 19e siècle États-Unis Femmes Conditions sociales 20e siècle États-Unis Home nursing History 19th century United States Home nursing History 20th century United States Medical personnel-caregiver relationships History 19th century United States Medical personnel-caregiver relationships History 20th century United States Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis Soins infirmiers à domicile Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Soins infirmiers à domicile Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis USA United States Women Social conditions 19th century United States Women Social conditions 20th century United States https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674020023 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Abel, Emily K. Hearts of Wisdom American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 MEDICAL / History bisacsh Aidantes naturelles Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Aidantes naturelles Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis Caregivers History 19th century United States Caregivers History 20th century United States Femmes Conditions sociales 19e siècle États-Unis Femmes Conditions sociales 20e siècle États-Unis Home nursing History 19th century United States Home nursing History 20th century United States Medical personnel-caregiver relationships History 19th century United States Medical personnel-caregiver relationships History 20th century United States Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis Soins infirmiers à domicile Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Soins infirmiers à domicile Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis USA United States Women Social conditions 19th century United States Women Social conditions 20th century United States |
| title | Hearts of Wisdom American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 |
| title_auth | Hearts of Wisdom American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 |
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| title_full | Hearts of Wisdom American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 Emily K. Abel |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Hearts of Wisdom American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 Emily K. Abel |
| title_short | Hearts of Wisdom |
| title_sort | hearts of wisdom american women caring for kin 1850 1940 |
| title_sub | American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 |
| topic | MEDICAL / History bisacsh Aidantes naturelles Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Aidantes naturelles Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis Caregivers History 19th century United States Caregivers History 20th century United States Femmes Conditions sociales 19e siècle États-Unis Femmes Conditions sociales 20e siècle États-Unis Home nursing History 19th century United States Home nursing History 20th century United States Medical personnel-caregiver relationships History 19th century United States Medical personnel-caregiver relationships History 20th century United States Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis Soins infirmiers à domicile Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Soins infirmiers à domicile Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis USA United States Women Social conditions 19th century United States Women Social conditions 20th century United States |
| topic_facet | MEDICAL / History Aidantes naturelles Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Aidantes naturelles Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis Caregivers History 19th century United States Caregivers History 20th century United States Femmes Conditions sociales 19e siècle États-Unis Femmes Conditions sociales 20e siècle États-Unis Home nursing History 19th century United States Home nursing History 20th century United States Medical personnel-caregiver relationships History 19th century United States Medical personnel-caregiver relationships History 20th century United States Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis Soins infirmiers à domicile Histoire 19e siècle États-Unis Soins infirmiers à domicile Histoire 20e siècle États-Unis USA United States Women Social conditions 19th century United States Women Social conditions 20th century United States |
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