Inventing Maternity : Politics, Science, and Literature, 1650-1865 /

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Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain. Drawing on feminist, cul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Barash, Carol, Greenfield, Susan C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Motherhood > Political aspects.
Motherhood in literature.
Motherhood.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
mothers.
politics.
sociology.
social psychology.
humanities.
social sciences.
Meres.
Politique.
Sociologie.
Psychologie sociale.
Sciences humaines.
Familles.
Parents.
Sciences sociales.
Litterature.
Maternite dans la litterature.
Maternite > Aspect politique.
Maternite > Histoire.
Mothers
Politics
Literature, Modern
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
Sociology
Psychology, Social
Named Groups.
Family
Persons.
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena.
Humanities
Nuclear Family
Parents
Social Sciences
Literature
Mothers.
Politics, Practical.
Sociology.
Social psychology.
Humanities.
Social sciences.
Motherhood > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Making Up for Losses: The Workings of Gender in William Harvey's de Generatione animalium; Notes; 2 ""Such Is My Bond"": Maternity and Economy in Anne Bradstreet's Writing; Christian Bondage; Paternal Bonds; Marital Bonds; Maternal Bonds; Maternity and Publication; Notes; 3 Aborting the ""Mother Plot"": Politics and Generation in Absalom and Achitophel; Notes; 4 The Pregnant Imagination, Women's Bodies, and Fetal Rights; Prologue; Notes.
  • 5 ""A Point of Conscience"": Breastfeeding and Maternal Authority in Pamela, Part 2Afterword; Notes; 6 Mary Wollstonecraft: Styles of Radical Maternity; Notes; 7 Maria Edgeworth and the Politics of Consumption: Eating, Breastfeeding, and the Irish Wet Nurse in Ennui; Notes; 8 Reproductive Urges: Literacy, Sexuality, and Eighteenth-Century Englishness; Patrilineage, Continuity, and the Trouble with Language; Matrilineage, Reproduction, and the Trouble with Sex; Jane Austen and the Perils of Reading Novels; Notes; 9 Infanticide and the Boundaries of Culture from Hume to Arnold; Notes.
  • 10 ""Happy Shall He Be, That Taketh and Dasheth Thy Little Ones against the Stones"": Infanticide in Cooper's The Last of the MohicansInfanticide in The Last of the Mohicans; ""Partial Relatives""; Regeneration through Self-Making; Notes; 11 Reforming the Body: ""Experience"" and the Architecture of Imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a SlaveGirl; ""Experience"" Space, and Motherhood under Slavery; The Flowery Home Ravaged; The Maternal Body and the Hiding (of) Place; Notes; Contributors; Index.

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