Front Cover; The Archaeology of Mothering; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Why an Archaeology of Mothering?; 2. The Perryman Family of Mobile; Narrative Interlude I; 3. African-American Mothering and Enslavement; Narrative Interlude II; 4. Mothering and Domesticity in Freedom: Ideology and Practice; Narrative Interlude III; 5. Midwifery as Mother's Work; Narrative Interlude IV; 6. To Mother or Not to Mother; Narrative Interlude V; 7. Midwifery and Scientific Mothering; Narrative Interlude VI
8. Conclusions: The Many Ideologies of African-American MotherhoodBibliography; Index
Summary
Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South
