Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America /

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This new approach to the history of motherhood examines the role the female body played in defining motherhood from the mid-eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century, demonstrating that physical representations or perceptions of the body were crucial to defining motherhood...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Doyle, Nora (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
Motherhood > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Maternite > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Human body > Social aspects > United States.
Women > United States > History.
Motherhood > Social aspects > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature
  • Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives
  • The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother
  • Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood
  • The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture
  • Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture
  • In search of the maternal body past and present.

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