Memorializing motherhood : Anna Jarvis and the struggle for control of Mother's Day / Katharine Lane Antolini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antolini, Katharine Lane, author.

Series:

West Virginia and Appalachia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mother's Day.

Jarvis, Anna, 1864-1948.

Jarvis, Anna.

Physical Description:

219 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown [West Virginia] : University of West Virginia Press, 2014.

Summary:

Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet on the second Sunday in May, we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or make the brunch reservation to honor our mother, all because of her. Ann Jarvis organized the first official Mother's Day celebration in Grafton, West Virginia, in 1908 and then spend decades promoting the holiday and defending it from commercialization. She designed her Mother's Day celebration around a sentimental view of motherhood and domesticity, envisioning a day venerating the daily services and sacrifice of mother within the home. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781938228933

1938228936

OCLC:

878504593