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In this reading, it really struck out to me the different responsibilities and activities that the midwives would get involved in, such as testifying for bastard children, attending baptisms and funerals, etc. It seemed they made more of a personal connection with the family and the baby. I found the shift from female midwives to males to be really surprising. Society always had a sense of shyness when it came to women. Women were supposed to be ladies and keep their physical beauty and body to their husband and not out in public to non family members. But, I believe with the increase of males delivering babies, those guards of shyness between men and women began to come down, slowly. In return, changing the mannerly way of men and women in society. --Aqsa Z. | In this reading, it really struck out to me the different responsibilities and activities that the midwives would get involved in, such as testifying for bastard children, attending baptisms and funerals, etc. It seemed they made more of a personal connection with the family and the baby. I found the shift from female midwives to males to be really surprising. Society always had a sense of shyness when it came to women. Women were supposed to be ladies and keep their physical beauty and body to their husband and not out in public to non family members. But, I believe with the increase of males delivering babies, those guards of shyness between men and women began to come down, slowly. In return, changing the mannerly way of men and women in society. --Aqsa Z. | ||
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| + | Scholten addresses the transition between childbirth as communal to childbirth as private. Where female midwives were once central to the childbirth process, women were now being excluded from the newly formed professional field of childbirth. Women were seen as unfit for the professional world. In a position that women had previously always filled, they were now hardly allowed to practice midwifery as men were seen as "more useful." Now, men had taken one of the only jobs that women were able to fill at the time. I would like to know how midwives of the time felt about their demotion and male feelings of superiority. -- Hannah W. | ||
== JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, Story of Margaretta, 1798 == | == JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, Story of Margaretta, 1798 == | ||
