Bibliograph

Lovie, the story of a Southern midwife and an unlikely friendship, Lisa Yarger

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Lovie, the story of a Southern midwife and an unlikely friendship, Lisa Yarger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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mapsillustrationsgenealogical tables

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lovie

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

945745464

Responsibility statement

Lisa Yarger

Series statement

Documentary arts and culture

Sub title

the story of a Southern midwife and an unlikely friendship

Summary

"From 1950 until 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. This is a provocative chronicle of Shelton's life and work, which spanned enormous changes in midwifery and in the ways women give birth"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

I'm a legend down here! -- A beginning -- The house of freedom -- That handmaiden business -- The original Washington -- Nurses on horseback -- The fig tree -- Babies and mamas -- Connie Corey and Doris Wilson -- Sister Carolina -- Palm Sunday -- Reunion -- Joy and Kenny -- A public health nurse-midwife -- I'm doing this for Joy -- Up to my neck in deliveries -- Receiving -- Birth stories -- Waiting -- You run into all sorts of things -- Marshall -- Walking a chalk line -- Still waiting -- Political showdown -- Barbry Allen, a baby, the Medes, a prayer -- A world of confusion and fog -- The call -- Labor -- Pushing -- Birth -- It's a thing of relationship -- Revelations -- God dealt well with the midwives

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