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The archaeology of mothering : an African-American midwife's tale /
"Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. The female head of this household, Lucrecia Perryman, turned...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why an archaeology of mothering?
- The Perryman family of Mobile
- Narrative interlude
- African-American mothering and enslavement
- Narrative interlude
- Mothering and domesticity in freedom: ideology and practice
- Narrative interlude
- Midwifery as mother's work
- Narrative interlude
- To mother or not to mother
- Narrative interlude
- Midwifery and scientific mothering
- Narrative interlude
- Conclusions: the many ideologies of African-American motherhood.