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UNINA9910269344803321 |
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Autore |
Doyle Nora |
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Titolo |
Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / / Nora Doyle |
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Chapel Hill, NC, : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018 |
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Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , [2018] |
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©[2018] |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908509-9-7 |
1-4696-3721-9 |
1-4696-3720-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 272 pages :) : illustrations ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human body - Social aspects - United States |
Women - United States - History |
Motherhood - Social aspects - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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In search of the maternal body -- 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 in different ways both for mothers themselves |
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