In the Way of Our Grandmothers: A Cultural View of Twentieth-Century Midwifery in Florida

by Debra Anne Susie

Based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants, and the women they served, In the Way of Our Grandmothers tells of the midwife's trade--her principles, traditions, and skills--and of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820309508
• ISBN13: 9780820309507
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

charming lady

"The book inspired me to have a baby," says a reader, "on my own." Debra Ann Susie left her home in Miami, Florida, to attended Florida State University. In the time of receiving her PHD, she wrote a dissertation. Her subject was brilliant; Midwifery. The book involves the broad-range of interviews from [mainly] southern, black midwifes in the Georgia/Florida rural areas. This charming book is truthful, and gaining, and will leave you in a new education of this life-producing job. `In the way of our grandmothers' is brilliant, and captures the amazing beliefs, and funny stories from midwives; our grandmothers.