Title Mothers and daughters in nineteenth-century America : the biosocial construction of femininity / Nancy M. Theriot.

Publication Info.	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
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Contents	Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Introduction: Investigating Identities and Experience from a Generational Perspective; 1 ""Imperial Motherhood"" and Its Material Roots; 2 The Physical Roots of Ideology; 3 Acculturation into ""True Womanhood""; 4 Daughters' Brave New World; 5 The ""Green Sickness"" and Daughters' Ambivalence; 6 A New Feminine Synthesis; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary	The feminine script of early nineteenth century centered on women's role as patient, long-suffering mothers. By mid-century, however, their daughters faced a world very different in social and economic options and in the physical experiences surrounding their bodies. In this groundbreaking study, Nancy Theriot turns to social and medical history, developmental psychology, and feminist theory to explain the fundamental shift in women's concepts of femininity and gender identity during the course of the century -- from an ideal suffering womanhood to emphasis on female control of physical self.
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Subject	Femininity -- History -- 19th century.
	Femininity.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Middle class women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Middle class women.
	United States.
	Mothers and daughters -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Mothers and daughters.
	Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Sex role.
	Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- Sociological aspects.
	Women -- Health and hygiene.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Gender roles.
	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: Theriot, Nancy M. Mothers and Daughters in Nineteenth-Century America : The Biosocial Construction of Femininity. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813108582
ISBN	9780813158204 (electronic book)
	0813158206 (electronic book)

Title Mothers and daughters in nineteenth-century America : the biosocial construction of femininity / Nancy M. Theriot.

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