Bibliograph

Maternal bodies, redefining motherhood in early America, Nora Doyle

Type

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Maternal bodies, redefining motherhood in early America, Nora Doyle

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Maternal bodies

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

989726742

Responsibility statement

Nora Doyle

Sub title

redefining motherhood in early America

Table Of 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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