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Author Doyle, Nora, author.

Title Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America / Nora Doyle
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 in different ways both for mothers themselves and for American culture at large
Analysis History
Breastfeeding
Cess
Childbirth
Middle class
Nursing
Pregnancy
Print culture
Slavery
Uterus
Wet nurse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Women -- United States -- History
Human body -- Social aspects -- United States.
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Human body -- Social aspects
Motherhood -- Social aspects
Women
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017026941
ISBN 9781469637204
1469637200
9781469637211
1469637219
9781469637181
1469637189
9798890850997