Modern Motherhood : An American History /

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How did mothers transform from parents of secondary importance in the colonies to having their multiple and complex roles connected to the well-being of the nation? In the first comprehensive history of motherhood in the United States, Jodi Vandenberg-Daves explores how tensions over the maternal ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vandenberg-Daves, Jodi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mothers.
Motherhood.
Families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Meres > États-Unis > Histoire.
Maternite > États-Unis > Histoire.
Familles > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mothers > United States > History.
Motherhood > United States > History.
Families > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I Roots of Modern Motherhood: Early America and the Nineteenth Century
  • 1. Inventing a New Role for Mothers
  • 2. Contradictions of Moral Motherhood: Slavery, Race, and Reform
  • 3. Medicalizing the Maternal Body
  • pt. II Modern Mothers: 1890
  • 1940
  • 4. Science, Expertise, and Advice to Mothers
  • 5. Grand Designs: Uplifting and Controlling the Mothers
  • 6. Modern Reproduction: The Fit and Unfit Mother
  • 7. Mothers' Resilience and Adaptation in Modern America
  • pt. III Mothers of Invention: World War II to the Present
  • 8. The Middle-Class Wife-and-Mother Box
  • 9. Mother Power and Mother Angst
  • 10. Mothers' Changing Lives and Continuous Caregiving.

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