| Description |
1 online resource (229 pages) |
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West Virginia and Appalachia |
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West Virginia and Appalachia.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the cultural duality of Mother's Day -- The foremothers and forefathers of Mother's Day -- Anna Jarvis and the Mother's Day movement -- "Honor thy father and thy mother" : the rivalry of Father's Day and Parents' Day -- The American war mothers and a memoir of Mother's Day -- A new Mother's Day : the holiday campaigns of the American Mothers Committee and the Maternity Center Association -- Epilogue : Anna Jarvis's final years and the burden of the Mother's Day movement |
| Summary |
Memorializing Motherhood explores the complicated history of Anna Jarviss movement to establish and control Mothers Day, as well as the powerful conceptualization of this day as both a holiday and a cultural representation of motherhood.--Back Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2023. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Jarvis, Anna, 1864-1948.
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| SUBJECT |
Jarvis, Anna, 1864-1948 fast |
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Jarvis, Anna 1864-1948 gnd |
| Subject |
Mother's Day.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Motherhood.
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Mother's Day
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Muttertag
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781938228957 |
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1938228952 |
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