TY  - BOOK
AU  - Apple,Rima D.
AU  - Golden,Janet Lynne
TI  - Mothers & motherhood: readings in American history 
T2  - Women and health
SN  - 0814207383
AV  - HQ759. M885 1997
U1  - 306.87430973 
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Mothers
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Women
KW  - 20th century
N1  - 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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