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Mom : the transformation of motherhood in modern America / Rebecca Jo Plant

Plant, Rebecca Jo,i1968- [Verfasser]

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 250 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-226-67023-2 ; 0-226-67023-6 ; 9786612537714 ; 661253771X ; 978-0-226-67020-1

MS 1990 HD 475

 

USA  Mutter  Massenkultur  Sozialgeschichte 1900-2010 

In the early twentieth-century United States, to speak of "mother love" was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixty years later, mainstream views of motherhood had been transformed, and Mother found herself blamed for a wide array of social and psychological ills. In Mom, Rebecca Jo Plant traces this important shift through several key moments in American history and popular culture. Exploring such topics as maternal caregiving, childbirth, and women's politic.