Motherhood in Black and White
Subtitle: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801434143
Subjects: American studies; Ethnic studies; Gender studies; 20th century; Parenting - Motherhood; U.S. History - 20th Century (General); Women In The U.S.; Women's Studies - History; History - U.S.; Women; History: American; USA; United States - 20th Century; Women's Studies - General; History; Motherhood; Mothers; United States
First sentence: At the end of John Steinbeck's best-selling Depression-era novel The Grapes of Wrath, the young woman in the family of displaced "Okies" draws a starving man to her breast to nurse him.