World of the Baby - Hardcover
This is an illustrated social history of babies and a celebration of infancy through the ages, showing how adults have viewed the arrival of a baby in the family. The author describes changing patterns of child care from royal to peasant babies, ancient fertility rites, the mystique of childbirth, theories of feeding and the rise and fall of the wet nurse, nannies, christenings and all customs and culture of babyhood. Babies' equipment is also covered - what they wore, ate, where they slept, cots, cradles, walkers, prams and baby clothes. The author has worked as a journalist for "Woman" and as Associate Editor for "Woman's Journal". She has published "Moneywoman" and "Encyclopedia of Fashion".
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Organized thematically to cover allied subjects such as conception, birth and infancy, this pictorial historical survey of how we have viewed and cared for babies is a handsomely produced if predictable compendium of familiar information. "It is sad, but true, that not all babies are wanted," notes a chapter on foundlings from Moses onward, and "to understand why people disposed of their babies in this way, we need to examine their motives." Of greater interest is the factual material unveiled by O'Hara ( Encyclopaediasic of Fashion ): to induce pregnancy, one American Indian tribe "cut off the feet of gophers which they boiled and then ate"; another sent would-be mothers to walk under trees, believed to be roosting places for babies' souls. The practice of swaddling was intended to discipline as much as to protect a child; one English rite required that a newborn's head be "washed in rum for luck." Excerpts from works by Dickens, Hardy, Thackeray, Wilde and others complement paintings plus illustrations of the "American-made Miller Breast Pump," a zodiac-inspired 19th century Arts and Crafts cradle and the like.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherMichael Joseph
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0718128869
- ISBN 13 9780718128869
- BindingHardcover
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