Midwife, witch, and woman-child: Metaphor for a matriarchal profession

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Title: Midwife, witch, and woman-child: Metaphor for a matriarchal profession
Author(s): Hearne, Betsy
Issue Date: 1998
Keyword(s): Storytelling
Abstract: "The story, its procreation; the literature, its practice: these are integrated, interactive processes. Let's not throw away the box of recipes. Although still suspect (for example, see Ritter's newspaper reports, ""Midwives Battle State Crackdown"" and ""A Tough State for Midwives""), midwifery is in many circles increasingly valued as an integrated, interactive way to deliver babies. And it is no accident that metaphors of midwifery fit smoothly in a matriarchal profession that has delivered the private domain of storytelling into the public domain of children's literature."
Publisher: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number: Allerton Park Institute (39th : 1997)
ISSN: 0536-4604
Type of Resource: text
Language: en
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Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 39, 1997); Edited by Betsy Hearne, Janice M. Del Negro, Christine Jenkins, and Deborah Stevenson

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