Maternal Bodies Redefining Motherhood in Early America / Nora Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, Nora, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects--United States.

Human body.

Women--United States--History.

Women.

Motherhood--Social aspects--United States--History.

Motherhood.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 272 pages :) illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC The University of North Carolina Press 2018

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890850997

9781469637211

1469637219

9781469637204

1469637200

OCLC:

1111955650

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access