Delivering Motherhood

Katherine Arnup taught Women’s History, Canadian and Interdisciplinary Studies at Trent University and Carleton University, retiring in 2013. She is the author of the award-winning book, Education for Motherhood: Advice for Mothers in 20th Century Canada, editor of the Lesbian Parenting: Living with Pride and Prejudice, and co-editor of Delivering Motherhood. Her latest book, “I don’t have time for this!” A Compassionate Guide to Caring for Your Parents and Yourself, was published in 2015. She is currently at work on a memoir about her struggle to become a lesbian mother in the early 1980s.Andrée Lévesque is Professor Emerita from McGill University. She has published extensively in both English and French. Her English publications include Red Travellers. Jeanne Gorbin and her Comrades (2006), Making and Breaking the Rules. Women in Quebec 1919-1939 (1994), and Eva Circé. Free Thinker (2017). She is the director of an archive centre specialising in personal and autobiographical writing, Archives Pass-Mémoire.Ruth Roach Pierson had a distinguished career as an historian and feminist scholar at Memorial University and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She published numerous books including “They’re Still Women After All.” The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood. Retiring as an emerita professor in 2001, she turned her hand to poetry, publishing six collections including Aide-Mémoire, a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry.

• Preface Introduction 1. ‘Motherhood Issues’ in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 2. ‘The Case of the Missing Midwives’: A History of Midwifery in Ontario from 1795–1900 3. The Different Stages of the Elimination of Midwives in Quebec 4. Childbirth in Ontario: The Transition from Home to Hospital in the Early Twentieth Century 5. The Confinement of Women: Childbirth and Hospitalization in Vancouver, 1919–1939 6. Deviants Anonymous: Single Mothers at the Hospital de la Miséricorde in Montreal, 1929–1939 7. Discoveries and Dissimulations: The Impact of Abortion Deaths on Maternal Mortality in British Columbia 8. Women’s Involvement in the Canadian Birth Control Movement of the 1930s: The Hamilton Clinic 9. Mothering in a Newfoundland Community: 1900–1940 10. Educating Mothers: Government Advice for Women in the Inter-War Years 11. Schools for Happiness: Instituts Familiaux and the Education of Ideal Wives and Mothers 12. The La Leche League: A Feminist Perspective 13. Ellen Key: Maternalism and Pacifism 14. Desperately Seeking Babies: New Technologies of Hope and Despair Index