Maternal Bodies Redefining Motherhood in Early America / Nora Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, Nora, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101721

ISBN:

9781469637204