| Description |
xi, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-319) and index. |
| Contents |
Inventing a new role for mothers -- Contradictions of moral motherhood : slavery, race, and reform -- Medicalizing the maternal body -- Science, expertise, and advice to mothers -- Grand designs : uplifting and controlling the mothers -- Modern reproduction : the fit and unfit mother -- Mothers' resilience and adaptation in modern America -- The middle-class wife-and-mother box -- Mother power and mother angst -- Mothers' changing lives and continuous caregiving. |
| Subject |
Families -- United States -- History.
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Families. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Motherhood -- United States -- History.
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Motherhood. |
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Mothers -- United States -- History.
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Mothers. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Motherhood. |
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Mothers. |
| ISBN |
0813563798 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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081356378X (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780813563794 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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9780813563787 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780813563800 (e-book) |
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