https://reuther.wayne.edu/taxonomy/term/1501 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/9274 <p>Flora Suhd Hommel was one of the pioneers who brought the Lamaze<br /> psychoprophylactic method of painless childbirth to the United States, establishing an<br /> important teaching organization in Detroit, the Childbirth Without Pain Education<br /> Association (CWPEA). She championed the rights of women to control childbirth,<br /> creating a grass-roots movement contemporaneous with the women’s movement of the<br /> 1960s-1970s. Hommel and the CWPEA were important catalysts in establishing similar childbirth and parenting organizations and teacher-monitrice accreditation programs across the United States.</p> <p>Hommel's papers reflect her career working with the Lamaze method. Most of the<br /> collection is comprised of CWPEA documents and correspondence from its<br /> establishment through the 1990s-- records of events, classes and projects, including the<br /> birthing center and the making of an American version of the well-respected French<br /> childbirth film “Naissance.” Of particular interest may be the many birth reports—<br /> extensive narrations of the birth experiences of CWPEA students. There is substantial<br /> overlap between correspondence in Hommel’s personal papers and the CWPEA<br /> correspondence. A sampling of newsletters and documents from national childbirth and<br /> parenting organizations is included in the papers. Several boxes of ICEA materials and a<br /> small amount of ASPO materials are located in Series III.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/9274#comments Childbirth--Studying and teaching Hommel, Flora, 1928-2015 Medical education Natural childbirth Nursing--Education Urban Affairs Women health reformers Women, gender, and health Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:59:57 -0400 drice 9274 at https://reuther.wayne.edu