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Doyle, Nora.
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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.
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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.
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Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America / Nora Doyle.
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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.
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