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...

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Subtitles:From flesh to spirit : living and imagining the maternal body in America, 1750-1850s
Main Author: Doyle, Nora (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Motherhood / Social situation / History 1750-1800
Online Access: Volltext (View this content on Open Research Library)