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...

पूर्ण विवरण

में बचाया:
ग्रंथसूची विवरण
मुख्य लेखक: Doyle, Nora (लेखक)
स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक ई-पुस्तक
भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
श्रृंखला:Book collections on Project MUSE.
विषय:
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विषय - सूची:
  • 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.