LEADER 03043oam 22006614a 450 001 9910269344803321 005 20230621140724.0 010 $a979-88-908509-9-7 010 $a1-4696-3721-9 010 $a1-4696-3720-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000003844793 035 $a(OCoLC)1111955650 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73580 035 $a(ScCtBLL)a9b9e1ed-ef9d-4277-b0c5-31be58176d83 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32505 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000003844793 100 $a20170605d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaternal Bodies$eRedefining Motherhood in Early America /$fNora Doyle 210 $aChapel Hill, NC$cThe University of North Carolina Press$d2018 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cThe University of North Carolina Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 272 pages :)$cillustrations ; 311 $a1-4696-3719-7 311 $a1-4696-3718-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIn 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. 330 $aThis 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 and for American culture at large. 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMotherhood$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aHistory 610 $aBreastfeeding 610 $aCess 610 $aChildbirth 610 $aMiddle class 610 $aNursing 610 $aPregnancy 610 $aPrint culture 610 $aSlavery 610 $aUterus 610 $aWet nurse 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 615 0$aMotherhood$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 676 $a306.874/3 700 $aDoyle$b Nora$0878963 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910269344803321 996 $aMaternal Bodies$91962665 997 $aUNINA