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Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / / Nora Doyle



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Autore: Doyle Nora Visualizza persona
Titolo: Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / / Nora Doyle Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, NC, : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018
Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , [2018]
©[2018]
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages :) : illustrations ;
Disciplina: 306.874/3
Soggetto topico: Human body - Social aspects - United States
Women - United States - History
Motherhood - Social aspects - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: History
Breastfeeding
Cess
Childbirth
Middle class
Nursing
Pregnancy
Print culture
Slavery
Uterus
Wet nurse
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 and for American culture at large.
Titolo autorizzato: Maternal Bodies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908509-9-7
1-4696-3721-9
1-4696-3720-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910269344803321
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