Sandra Trudgen Dawson is Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction: Mothers and Midwives: Reproductive Labour in Interwar and Wartime BritainChapter One: Infant Mortality, Surplus Women, and the Establishment of a ProfessionChapter Two: Midwives and Maternal Mortality During and After the Great WarChapter Three: Women’s Reproductive Health and Birth Control in the 1920s and 1930sChapter Four: Labour Pains and Activism for Mothers in the 1930sChapter Five: Municipal Midwives and National ShortagesChapter Six: War and Reproductive LabourChapter Seven: Desiring More: Mothers, Midwives, and the Policies of Wartime PersuasionEpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author

A meticulously researched account of reproductive labor in Britain, this study clearly explains how and why midwifery changed from the late nineteenth century through the Second World War. Dawson offers a sweeping analysis of the cultural and political forces that undermined attempts to promote motherhood and midwifery and shares the voices of those who refused to follow official directives.

Sandra Trudgen Dawson is Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction: Mothers and Midwives: Reproductive Labour in Interwar and Wartime BritainChapter One: Infant Mortality, Surplus Women, and the Establishment of a ProfessionChapter Two: Midwives and Maternal Mortality During and After the Great WarChapter Three: Women’s Reproductive Health and Birth Control in the 1920s and 1930sChapter Four: Labour Pains and Activism for Mothers in the 1930sChapter Five: Municipal Midwives and National ShortagesChapter Six: War and Reproductive LabourChapter Seven: Desiring More: Mothers, Midwives, and the Policies of Wartime PersuasionEpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author

A meticulously researched account of reproductive labor in Britain, this study clearly explains how and why midwifery changed from the late nineteenth century through the Second World War. Dawson offers a sweeping analysis of the cultural and political forces that undermined attempts to promote motherhood and midwifery and shares the voices of those who refused to follow official directives.

Sandra Trudgen Dawson is Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction: Mothers and Midwives: Reproductive Labour in Interwar and Wartime BritainChapter One: Infant Mortality, Surplus Women, and the Establishment of a ProfessionChapter Two: Midwives and Maternal Mortality During and After the Great WarChapter Three: Women’s Reproductive Health and Birth Control in the 1920s and 1930sChapter Four: Labour Pains and Activism for Mothers in the 1930sChapter Five: Municipal Midwives and National ShortagesChapter Six: War and Reproductive LabourChapter Seven: Desiring More: Mothers, Midwives, and the Policies of Wartime PersuasionEpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author

A meticulously researched account of reproductive labor in Britain, this study clearly explains how and why midwifery changed from the late nineteenth century through the Second World War. Dawson offers a sweeping analysis of the cultural and political forces that undermined attempts to promote motherhood and midwifery and shares the voices of those who refused to follow official directives.