244 P - Comparative Cultures of Childbirth and Childcare

Saturday, June 3, 2017: 1:45 PM-3:15 PM
BRESL 112 (Hofstra University)
The introduction of Western medicine and trained "modern" midwives in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
Keiko Ogawa, Tokai University Junior college of Nursing and Medical Technolog
Who Cares?: Shift of the Infant Nursing under Post-Mao Gender Politics of Urban China
Fumie Ohashi, Musashi University
Ethnic and Professional Clashes: Midwifery Cultures and Obstetrics in late 19th century Chicago
Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, University of Gothenburg
"Childbirth, Childcare, and Working Class Mothers of Colonial Bombay."
Priyanka Srivastava, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Session Abstract

This panel focuses on different cultural approaches to childbirth and childcare. One study discusses issues concerning the introduction of the “modern” midwives trained in Western medicine in the initial stage of modernizing the medical field in Meiji Japan. The second study examines how the gendered socio-economic circumstances of Post-Mao regime in China have influenced the reconfiguration of child care. The third study investigates the points of contention between midwifery cultures and obstetrics in late 19th century Chicago. The fourth study analyzes how the discourse of medicalized childbirth and hygienic childcare affected the working class women of Bombay, a primary center of the cotton textile industry in colonial India.

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