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The Anchor of My Life : Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920.
Relying on women's own words in letters and journals, Rosenzweig refutes the prescriptive literature of the times with its dire predictions of inevitable rifts between Victorian mothers and their daughters, the new women of the twentieth century. Instead Rosenzweig shows us mothers who rejoiced...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
1993.
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| Series: | History of Emotions S.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 "THE CENTRAL PROBLEM OF FEMALE EXPERIENCE": INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 "MY GIRLS' MOTHERS": THE EMOTIONOLOGY OF MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS, 1880-1920; CHAPTER 3 "CULTURAL WORK": MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS IN NOVELS; CHAPTER 4 "A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND": ADOLESCENT DAUGHTERS AND THEIR MOTHERS; CHAPTER 5 "I AM SO GLAD YOU COULD GO TO COLLEGE": THE "NEW WOMAN" AND HER MOTHER; CHAPTER 6 "WE NEED EACH OTHER": ADULT DAUGHTERS AND THEIR MOTHERS; CHAPTER 7 "THE REVOLT OF THE DAUGHTERS": MIDDLE-CLASS ENGLISH MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.
- Chapter 8 "mother drove us in the studebaker": american mothers and daughters after 1920chapter 9 "the anchor of my life": toward a history of mother-daughter relationships; notes; index.