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010 _z 2017026941
020 _a9781469637204
020 _z9781469637211
020 _z9781469637181
020 _z9781469637198
035 _a(OCoLC)1111955650
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aDoyle, Nora,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMaternal Bodies :
_bRedefining Motherhood in Early America /
_cNora Doyle.
264 1 _aChapel Hill :
_bThe University of North Carolina Press,
_c[2018]
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2019
264 4 _c©[2018]
300 _a1 online resource (286 pages):
_billustrations
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aIn search of the maternal body -- The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature -- Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives -- The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother -- Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood -- The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture -- Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture -- In search of the maternal body past and present.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aThis 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aWomen.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01176568
650 7 _aMotherhood
_xSocial aspects.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01026930
650 7 _aHuman body
_xSocial aspects.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01730101
650 7 _aHISTORY
_zUnited States
_xColonial Period (1600-1775)
_2bisacsh
650 6 _aMaternite
_xAspect social
_zÉtats-Unis
_xHistoire.
650 6 _aFemmes
_zÉtats-Unis
_xHistoire.
650 0 _aHuman body
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWomen
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMotherhood
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
651 7 _aUnited States.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/67163/
999 _c232608
_d232607