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Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America
Author
Title
Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America / Nora Doyle.
ISBN
9781469637181
1469637189
9781469637198
1469637197
9781469637204
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Physical Description
xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 21, 2018
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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