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Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America
Author
Title
Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America / Nora Doyle.
ISBN
9781469637204
1469637200
9781469637211
1469637219
9781469637181
1469637189
9798890850997
9781469637198
1469637197
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
This new approach to the history of motherhood examines the role the female body played in defining motherhood from the mid-eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century, demonstrating that physical representations or perceptions of the body were crucial to defining motherhood in different ways both for mothers themselves and for American culture at large.
Variant and related titles
KU Select 2017 Frontlist Collection. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Doyle, Nora. Maternal bodies. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 08, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
In search of the maternal body
The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature
Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives
The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother
Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood
The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture
Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture
In search of the maternal body past and present.
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Genre/Form
History.
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