Blue - A History of Postpartum Depression in America

"Postpartum depression and mental illness were long considered unfit for the public, psychological, or political discussion. Women were typically told their "baby blues" weren't important-or that they were failing as mothers. As Rachel Louise Moran shows, bringing these serious and common challenges into the open didn't just happen. It took activists, medical professionals, and countless everyday mothers to speak the unspeakable: motherhood is hard, and its burdens are often both heavy and unfair. Moran's groundbreaking work situates the changing cultural understanding of postpartum within larger women's health movements in America--a discussion that has constantly shifted amid the country's broader cultural and political transformations"--

About the author

Rachel Louise Moran is an associate professor of history at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Louise Moran
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9780226835792
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83579-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Psychology, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Women, PSYCHOLOGY / History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls