Readings Assigned
Readings Assigned
Gress-Smith, J. L., Luecken, L. J., Lemery-Chalfant, K., & Howe, R. (2012). Postpartum depression prevalence and impact on infant health, weight, and sleep in low-income and ethnic minority women and infants. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 16(4), 887–893. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-011-0812-y
Lee, B. C., Modrek, S., White, J. S., Batra, A., Collin, D. F., & Hamad, R. (2020). The effect of California’s paid family leave policy on parent health: A quasi-experimental study. Social Science & Medicine, 251, 112915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112915. (Skim this article)
Miller, B. (2017). Mothering while poor: Utilizing the reproductive justice framework to build the capacities of young mothers. In L. Ross, L. Roberts, E. Derkas, W. Peoples, & P. Bridgewater (Eds.), Radical reproductive justice: Foundation, theory, practice, critique (pp. 355–360). The Feminist Press. (use this link to access via library: https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.brynmawr.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1700547&site=ehost-live&ebv=EK&ppid=Page-__-137)
Optional (not required)
Harp, K. L. H., & Bunting, A. M. (2020). The racialized nature of child welfare policies and the social control of black bodies. Social Politics, 27(2), 258–281. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxz039
Hunte, R., Klawetter, S., & Paul, S. (2021). Black nurses in the home is working: Advocacy, naming, and processing racism to improve black maternal and infant health. Maternal and Child Health Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03283-4
Keefe, R. H., Brownstein-Evans, C., & Rouland Polmanteer, R. S. (2016). Having our say: African-American and Latina mothers provide recommendations to health and mental health providers working with new mothers living with postpartum depression. Social Work in Mental Health, 14(5), 497–508. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2016.1140699