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Humanities Book Group

The West: Image and Reality

Reading discussion on "Birthing the West" by Jennifer J. Hill. Rescheduled for Thursday, 20 July 2023, 7 p.m.

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• This program has received funding from Utah Humanities.  Utah Humanities enriches our cultural, intellectual, and civic life by providing opportunities for all Utahns to explore life's most engaging questions and the wonders of the human experience.
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Rescheduled for Thursday, 20 July 2023, 7 p.m. Original Date was: Thursday, 1 Jun 2023, 7 p.m. - Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains by Hill, Jennifer J. Scholar: Leah LaGrone, PhD, WSU. Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains By Hill, Jennifer J. 2022-03 - Bison Books 9781496226853 CHECK CATALOG Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West, Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around historical reproduction with copious new evidence and an enticing narrative, describing a process of settlement in the American West that depended on the nurturing connections of reproductive caregivers and the authority of mothers over birth. Economic and cultural …More

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