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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Antolini, Katharine Lane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2014.
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.