Memorializing motherhood : Anna Jarvis and the struggle for control of Mother's Day /
Memorializing Motherhood explores the complicated history of Anna Jarviss movement to establish and control Mothers Day, as well as the powerful conceptualization of this day as both a holiday and a cultural representation of motherhood.--Back Cover.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2014.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | West Virginia and Appalachia.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the cultural duality of Mother's Day
- The foremothers and forefathers of Mother's Day
- Anna Jarvis and the Mother's Day movement
- "Honor thy father and thy mother" : the rivalry of Father's Day and Parents' Day
- The American war mothers and a memoir of Mother's Day
- A new Mother's Day : the holiday campaigns of the American Mothers Committee and the Maternity Center Association
- Epilogue : Anna Jarvis's final years and the burden of the Mother's Day movement.