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Mom : the transformation of motherhood in modern America /

In the early twentieth-century United States, to speak of "mother love" was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixty years later, mainstream views of mothe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plant, Rebecca Jo, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Debunking the all-American mom: Philip Wylie's momism critique
  • Mothers of the nation: patriotic maternalism and its critics
  • Pathologizing mother love: mental health and maternal affectivity
  • Banishing the suffering mother: the quest for painless childbirth
  • Mother-blaming and The feminine mystique: Betty Friedan and her readers.