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Modern Motherhood : An American History /
How did mothers transform from parents of secondary importance in the colonies to having their multiple and complex roles connected to the well-being of the nation? In the first comprehensive history of motherhood in the United States, Jodi Vandenberg-Daves explores how tensions over the maternal ro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Roots of Modern Motherhood: Early America and the Nineteenth Century
- 1. Inventing a New Role for Mothers
- 2. Contradictions of Moral Motherhood: Slavery, Race, and Reform
- 3. Medicalizing the Maternal Body
- Part II. Modern Mothers: 1890-1940
- 4. Science, Expertise, and Advice to Mothers
- 5. Grand Designs: Uplifting and Controlling the Mothers
- 6. Modern Reproduction: The Fit and Unfit Mother
- 7. Mothers' Resilience and Adaptation in Modern America
- Part III. Mothers of Invention: World War II to the Present
- 8. The Middle-Class Wife-and- Mother Box
- 9. Mother Power and Mother Angst
- 10. Mothers' Changing Lives and Continuous Caregiving
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author