Title: I could not call her mother : the stepmother in American popular culture, 1750-1970 /
Authors: Lindenauer, Leslie J.,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Stepmothers United States History.; Popular culture United States
Contents: Unbounded in her Malice: From Witches to Stepmothers in Early America -- I Could Not Call Her Mother: The Stepmother and Middle-Class Virtue in Antebellum America -- The Substitute Mother in the Nineteenth Century: Gender, Race, and Parenthood -- The Educated [Step] Mother: The Stepmother and the Science of Motherhood in the Progressive Era -- The Family in the Funhouse Mirror: Periodicals, Pulps, and Film, 1920-1945 -- Tunnel of Love: Motherhood Compsed in the Post-War Era.