Description |
x, 186 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-173) and index. |
Contents |
Maternal metaphors : articulating gender, race, and nation at the turn of the century -- Reconstructing motherhood : Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and the rhetoric of racial uplift -- The romance "plot" : reproducing silence, reinscribing race in The awakening and Summer -- Hard labor : Edith Summers Kelley's Weeds and the language of eugenics -- Fatal contractions : Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the new Negro mother -- Epilogue: representing motherhood at century's end. |
Subject |
Motherhood -- United States -- History.
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Motherhood. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Racism -- United States -- History.
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Racism. |
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Motherhood in literature.
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Motherhood in literature. |
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Fertility in literature.
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Fertility in literature. |
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Motherhood. |
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Racism. |
ISBN |
025202690X cloth |
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