TY - BOOK AU - Greenfield,Susan C. AU - Barash,Carol TI - Inventing maternity: politics, science, and literature, 1650-1865 SN - 0813120780 AV - HQ759 .I57 1999 U1 - 306.8743 21 PY - 1999///] CY - Lexington PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Motherhood KW - History KW - Motherhood in literature KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Making up for losses: the workings of gender in William Harvey's de Generatione animalium / Eve Keller -- "Such is my bond": maternity and economy in Anne Bradstreet's writing / Kimberly Latta -- Aborting the "Mother plot": politics and generation in Absalom and Achitophel / Susan C. Greenfield -- The pregnant imagination, women's bodies, and fetal rights / Julia Epstein -- "A point of conscience": breastfeeding and maternal authority in Pamela, part 2 / Toni Bowers -- Mary Wollstonecraft: styles of radical maternity / Claudia L. Johnson -- Maria Edgeworth and the politics of consumption: eating, breastfeeding, and the Irish wet nurse in Ennue / Julie Costello -- Reproductive urges: literacy, sexuality, and eighteenth-century Englishness / Anita Levy -- Infanticide and the boundaries of culture from Hume to Arnold / Josephine McDonagh -- "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones": infanticide in Cooper's The last of the Mohicans / Mary Chapman -- Reforming the body: "Experience" and the architecture of imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Ann Gelder ER -