Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend
Author: Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend
Author: The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend
Author: William C. BrownThe Mother's Assistant, Young Lady's Friend and Family Manual
Author: Maternal Bodies
Author: Nora DoylePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469637200
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In the second half of the eighteenth century, motherhood came to be viewed as women's most important social role, and the figure of the good mother was celebrated as a moral force in American society. Nora Doyle shows that depictions of motherhood in American culture began to define the ideal mother by her emotional and spiritual roles rather than by her physical work as a mother. As a result of this new vision, lower-class women and non-white women came to be excluded from the identity of the good mother because American culture defined them in terms of their physical labor. However, Doyle also shows that childbearing women contradicted the ideal of the disembodied mother in their personal accounts and instead perceived motherhood as fundamentally defined by the work of their bodies. Enslaved women were keenly aware that their reproductive bodies carried a literal price, while middle-class and elite white women dwelled on the physical sensations of childbearing and childrearing. Thus motherhood in this period was marked by tension between the lived experience of the maternal body and the increasingly ethereal vision of the ideal mother that permeated American print culture.
The Mother's Assistant, and Child's Friend
Author: Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Author: Sarah Frances Smith
Author: