Mom [[electronic resource] ] : the transformation of motherhood in modern America / / Rebecca Jo Plant

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455601203321
• Autore: Plant Rebecca Jo <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-53771-7; 9786612537714; 0-226-67023-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/3
• Soggetti: Motherhood - United States; Motherhood in popular culture - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Debunking the All-American Mom: Philip Wylie's Momism Critique -- 2. Mothers of the Nation: Patriotic Maternalism and Its Critics -- 3. Pathologizing Mother Love: Mental Health and Maternal Affectivity -- 4. Banishing the Suffering Mother: The Quest for Painless Childbirth -- 5. Mother-Blaming and The Feminine Mystique : Betty Friedan and Her Readers -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the early twentieth century, Americans often waxed lyrical about "Mother Love," signaling a conception of motherhood as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in self-sacrifice and infused with social and political meaning. By the 1940's, the idealization of motherhood had waned, and the nation's mothers found themselves blamed for a host of societal and psychological ills. In Mom, Rebecca Jo Plant traces this important shift by exploring the evolution of maternalist politics, changing perceptions of the mother-child bond, and the rise of new approaches to childbirth