Maternal bodies
Subtitle: redefining motherhood in early America
By: Nora Doyle
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781469637181; 9781469637198
Subjects: Motherhood; History; Human body; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In search of the maternal body; title: The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature; title: Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives; title: The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother; title: Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood; title: The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture; title: Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture; title: In search of the maternal body past and present.