Mothers & motherhood : readings in American history / edited by Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-573) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mothers, Motherhood, and Historians -- Pt. 1. Social Construction of Motherhood -- 1. The Cultural Significance of Breast-Feeding and Infant Care in Early Modern England and America -- 2. The Republican Vision of Mary Palmer Tyler -- 3. Mother's Love: The Construction of an Emotion in Nineteenth-Century America -- 4. The New Motherhood and the New View of Wet Nurses, 1780-1865 -- 5. Constructing Mothers: Scientific Motherhood in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 6. Confessions of Loss: Maternal Grief in True Story, 1920-1985 -- 7. "I Wanted the Whole World to See": Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till -- Pt. 2. Motherhood and Reproduction -- 8. "The Living Mother of a Living Child": Midwifery and Mortality in Post-Revolutionary New England -- 9. "Sally Has Been Sick": Pregnancy and Family Limitation among Virginia Gentry Women, 1780-1830 -- 10. Motherhood Denied: Women and Infertility in Historical Perspective -- 11. Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep -- 12. African American Women and Abortion, 1800-1970 -- 13. The Alternative Birth Movement in the United States: History and Current Status -- Pt. 3. Social and Cultural Settings -- 14. Mothering under Slavery in the Antebellum South -- 15. "Sweet Good Mothers and Young Women Out in the World": The Roles of Irish American Women in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Worcester, Massachusetts -- 16. Jewish Mothers and Immigrant Daughters: Positive and Negative Role Models -- 17. Social, Historical, Political, and Cultural Settings of Japanese American Motherhood, 1940-1990: The Tradition of Amae, Gambare, and Gaman in the American Midwest -- 18. Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America -- 19. Diversity in Women's Liberation Ideology: How a Black and a White Group of the 1960s Viewed Motherhood -- Pt. 4. Public Policy -- 20. Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States -- 21. "When the Birds Have Flown the Nest, the Mother-Work May Still Go On": Sentimental Maternalism and the National Congress of Mothers -- 22. "Go after the Women": Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant Woman, 1915-1929 -- 23. Modernizing the Rural Mother: Gender, Class, and Health Reform in Illinois, 1910-1930 -- 24. Regulating Industrial Homework: The Triumph of "Sacred Motherhood" -- 25. "Employable Mothers" and "Suitable Work": A Reevaluation of Welfare and Wage Earning for Women in the Twentieth-Century United States -- Bibliography: Selected Further Readings -- Contributors -- Index.

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