Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Idealizing birth and motherhood in the Antebellum south
  • Conception and pregnancy: southern women's experiences of reproduction
  • Childbirth: commonalities and divisions
  • Motherhood: infant nurturing and identity
  • Fatherhood and the southern patriarchy
  • Birth and professional identity in the Antebellum south
  • Birth, motherhood, and the sectional crisis.