How Long to Read The Making of Man-midwifery

How Long Does it Take to Read The Making of Man-midwifery?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read The Making of Man-midwifery by Adrian Wilson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from the subsequent month of lying-in. But in the eighteenth century there emerged a new practitioner: the "man-midwife" who acted in lieu of a midwife and delivered normal births. By the late eighteenth century, men-midwives had achieved a permanent place in the management of childbirth, especially in the most lucrative spheres of practice. Why did women desert the traditional midwife? How was it that a domain of female control and collective solidarity became instead a region of male medical practice? What had broken down the barrier that had formerly excluded the male practitioner from the management of birth? This confident and authoritative work explores and explains a remarkable transformation--a shift not just in medical practices but in gender relations. Exploring the sociocultural dimensions of childbirth, Wilson argues with great skill that it was not the desires of medical men but the choices of mothers that summoned man-midwifery into being.

How long is The Making of Man-midwifery?

The Making of Man-midwifery by Adrian Wilson is 268 pages long, and a total of 69,144 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Making of Man-midwifery Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read The Making of Man-midwifery aloud.

What Reading Level is The Making of Man-midwifery?

The Making of Man-midwifery is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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