Maternal bodies: redefining motherhood in early America
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...
| Subtitles: | From flesh to spirit : living and imagining the maternal body in America, 1750-1850s |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Motherhood
/ Social situation
/ History 1750-1800
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| Online Access: |
Volltext (View this content on Open Research Library) |
| 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. |
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| ISBN: | 1469637200 |