1. Leavitt Judith Walzer , Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750 to 1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 192.
2. Leavitt Judith Walzer , Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
3. Ibid., xi, 14, 284, 295.
4. See for example Tim Fisher, ‘Fatherhood and the British Fathercraft Movement, 1919–39’, Gender & History, 2005, 17, 441–62; Laura King, ‘Hidden Fathers? The Significance of Fatherhood in Mid-twentieth-century Britain’, Contemporary British History, 2012, 26, 25–46. More recently Laura King has been developing a project on fathers and childbirth in post-1950 Britain.
5. Timothy Frank, ‘About Our Fathers' Business: Fatherhood in New Zealand, 1900–1940’ (PhD thesis, University of Auckland, 2004), 85; Leonore Davidoff, The Family Story: Blood, Contract, and Intimacy, 1830–1960 (London: Longman, 1999), 82.