Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America / Nora Doyle.

Author/creator Doyle, Nora author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Descriptionpages cm
Subjects

Contents In 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2017026941
ISBN9781469637181 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN1469637189 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781469637198 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN1469637197 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN(ebook)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ759 .D69 2018 ✔ Available Place Hold