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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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Doyle, Nora (Συγγραφέας)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έκδοση: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Σειρά:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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