ISBN:
9781469637198
,
9781469637181
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 272 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Doyle, Nora Maternal bodies
DDC:
306.874/3
Keywords:
Motherhood Social aspects
;
History
;
Women History
;
Human body Social aspects
;
USA
;
Mutterrolle
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte 1750-1800
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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