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Item Information       Choice Review     Library Journal Review     More Content     More by this author     Doyle, Nora.     Subjects     Motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.     Motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Women -- United States.     Human body -- Social aspects -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Doyle, Nora.       by title:      Maternal bodies : re...       by call number:      306.8743 D754m     Search the Web     Doyle, Nora.     Motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.     Motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Women -- United States.     Human body -- Social aspects -- United States.       MARC Display

Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America / Nora Doyle. by Doyle, Nora. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Call #: 306.8743 D754m Subjects Motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.   Motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Women -- United States.   Human body -- Social aspects -- United States. ISBN:  9781469637181 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781469637198 (pbk : alk. paper) Description:  xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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