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Flora Hommel Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP002090
Abstract
Flora Suhd Hommel was one of the pioneers who brought the Lamaze
psychoprophylactic method of painless childbirth to the United States, establishing an
important teaching organization in Detroit, the Childbirth Without Pain Education
Association (CWPEA). She championed the rights of women to control childbirth,
creating a grass-roots movement contemporaneous with the women’s movement of the
1960s-1970s. Hommel and the CWPEA were important catalysts in establishing similar childbirth and...
Dates:
1950 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1989
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library