LEADER 04252nam 2200613 450 001 9910464248603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-937750-2 010 $a0-19-937749-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000518560 035 $a(EBL)1611788 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001108413 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12489582 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108413 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11103172 035 $a(PQKB)11657073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1611788 035 $a(PPN)24361053X 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1611788 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10837077 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL573905 035 $a(OCoLC)870757258 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000518560 100 $a20131029h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLamaze $ean international history /$fPaula A. Michaels 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press, USA,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (500 p.) 225 0$aOxford studies in international history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-973864-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Medicalized Childbirth and Natural Childbirth -- 3. The Soviet Method, 1936-51 -- 4. "Science Knows No Borders": Psychoprophylaxis in France, 1951-56 -- 5. "Passionate Controversies": Conflict and Change in Psychoprophylaxis across Europe in the 1950s -- 6. Lamaze Goes Global, 1957-67 -- 7. American Gains and Global Decline, 1968-80 -- 8. Epilogue: Revolution or Cooptation?. 330 $a"The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering path to the alleviation of pain in childbirth resonated with the feminist and countercultural values of the era. In Lamaze, historian Paula Michaels tells the surprising story of the Lamaze method from its origins in the Soviet Union in the 1940s, to its popularization in France in the 1950s, and then to its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s in the US. Michaels shows how, for different reasons, in disparate national contexts, this technique for managing the pain of childbirth without resort to drugs found a following. The Soviet government embraced this method as a panacea to childbirth pain in the face of the material and fiscal shortages that followed World War II. Heated and sometimes ideologically inflected debates surrounded the Lamaze method as it moved from East to West amid the Cold War. Physicians in France sympathetic to the communist cause helped to export it across the Iron Curtain, but politics alone fails to explain why French women embraced this approach. Arriving on American shores around 1960, the Lamaze method took on new meanings. Initially it offered a path to a safer and more satisfying birth experience, but overtly political considerations came to the fore once again as feminists appropriated it as a way to resist the patriarchal authority of male obstetricians. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Michaels pieces together this complex and fascinating story at the crossroads of the history of politics, medicine, and women. The story of Lamaze illuminates the many contentious issues that swirl around birthing practices in America and Europe. Brimming with insight, Michaels' engaging history offers an instructive intervention in the debate about how to achieve humane, empowering, and safe maternity care for all women"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aOxford Studies in International History 606 $aNatural childbirth 606 $aNatural childbirth$vCross-cultural studies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNatural childbirth. 615 0$aNatural childbirth 676 $a618.4/5 700 $aMichaels$b Paula A.$f1966-$0876092 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464248603321 996 $aLamaze$91956524 997 $aUNINA