Mothering the race
Subtitle: women's narratives of reproduction, 1890-1930
By: Allison Berg.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Motherhood -- United States -- History; Racism -- United States -- History; Motherhood in literature; Fertility in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Maternal metaphors : articulating gender, race, and nation at the turn of the century; title: Reconstructing motherhood : Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and the rhetoric of racial uplift; title: The romance "plot" : reproducing silence, reinscribing race in The awakening and Summer; title: Hard labor : Edith Summers Kelley's Weeds and the language of eugenics; title: Fatal contractions : Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the new Negro mother; title: Epilogue: representing motherhood at century's end.