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Maternal Bodies Redefining Motherhood in Early America

This 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doyle, Nora
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC The University of North Carolina Press 2018
Subjects:
Wet Nurse
Breastfeeding
Uterus
Pregnancy
Cess
Slavery
History Of The Americas
Print Culture
Childbirth
Middle Class
History
Nursing
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Collection: OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This 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.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
ISBN:9781469637204

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