Search Results: poor and pregnant in paris by fuchs rachelg

New Jersey: Rutgers University Press., 1996. Paperback. Very Good. In their attempts to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in some respect helped shape it. Rachel Fuchs reveals who these women were and how they survived. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual hospital records and court cases and court testimonials, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences. tight;slight chipping on corners and edge;clean AB38