Participant Info
- First Name
- Summer
- Last Name
- Smith
- Country
- United States
- State
- MS Mississippi
- ssmith15@go.olemiss.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Mississippi
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Early Modern, Britain, Midwifery, Medicine, Gender, Women, Scotland
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I completed my M.A. in history at the University of North Texas and I am currently doctoral candidate at the University of Mississippi working on a dissertation examining midwifery and childbearing in early modern Britain. My work shifts the focus of British history by focusing on Scotland as the center-point and comparing Scottish practices with those in England. Following the rise of the man-midwife, I consider how birth attendants negotiated and reshaped the gendered power structures that accompanied childbearing. In doing so I help to explain how birth shifted from social ritual to medical event.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Scotland
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Medicine, Women
