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(redirected from twilight sleep)

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The ones who survived the years of twilight sleep and childbed fever The ones who endured famine, poverty, war, and witch hunts The Grandmothers nobody could kill because they live in the marrow of your bones, endlessly renewed with the passing moon.
When referring to the Twilight Sleep debate, for example, he states that "the social idealism of American feminists finally collided with the analytic methods of physicians" (p.
Particularly persuasive is the well documented section showing Wharton's interest in the eugenics/science debate, which Bauer goes on to trace in later chapters, especially those on Summer, Twilight Sleep and The Children.
 
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