Modern motherhood : an American history /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vandenberg-Daves, Jodi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Families > United States > History.
Motherhood > United States > History.
Mothers > United States > History.
Familles > États-Unis > Histoire.
Maternité > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mères > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Families
Motherhood
Mothers
United States
Role of mothers.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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.

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