Maternal Bodies Redefining Motherhood in Early America
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill, NC
The University of North Carolina Press
2018
Chapel Hill : [2018] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423656306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
