Book/Printed Material Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America

Title

• Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America

Names

• Doyle, Nora, author

Created / Published

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

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.

Headings

• -  Human body--Social aspects--United States
• -  Motherhood--Social aspects--United States--History
• -  Women--United States--History

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (xii, 272 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• HQ759

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020718283

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020718283

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020718283

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