Mothers & motherhood : readings in American history /
Mothers and motherhood
edited by Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden.
- xvii, 605 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Women and health. .
- Women & health (Columbus, Ohio). .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-573) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mothers, Motherhood, and Historians -- Social Construction of Motherhood -- The Cultural Significance of Breast-Feeding and Infant Care in Early Modern England and America -- The Republican Vision of Mary Palmer Tyler -- Mother's Love: The Construction of an Emotion in Nineteenth-Century America -- The New Motherhood and the New View of Wet Nurses, 1780-1865 -- Constructing Mothers: Scientific Motherhood in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Confessions of Loss: Maternal Grief in True Story, 1920-1985 -- "I Wanted the Whole World to See": Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till -- Motherhood and Reproduction -- "The Living Mother of a Living Child": Midwifery and Mortality in Post-Revolutionary New England -- "Sally Has Been Sick": Pregnancy and Family Limitation among Virginia Gentry Women, 1780-1830 -- Motherhood Denied: Women and Infertility in Historical Perspective -- Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep -- African American Women and Abortion, 1800-1970 -- The Alternative Birth Movement in the United States: History and Current Status -- Social and Cultural Settings -- Mothering under Slavery in the Antebellum South -- "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 -- Jewish Mothers and Immigrant Daughters: Positive and Negative Role Models -- Social, Historical, Political, and Cultural Settings of Japanese American Motherhood, 1940-1990: The Tradition of Amae, Gambare, and Gaman in the American Midwest -- Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America -- Diversity in Women's Liberation Ideology: How a Black and a White Group of the 1960s Viewed Motherhood -- Public Policy -- Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States -- "When the Birds Have Flown the Nest, the Mother-Work May Still Go On": Sentimental Maternalism and the National Congress of Mothers -- "Go after the Women": Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant Woman, 1915-1929 -- Modernizing the Rural Mother: Gender, Class, and Health Reform in Illinois, 1910-1930 -- Regulating Industrial Homework: The Triumph of "Sacred Motherhood" -- "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. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. 2. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Pt. 3. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Pt. 4. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
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