Memorializing motherhood : Anna Jarvis and the struggle for control of Mother's Day /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Morgantown :
University of West Virginia Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | West Virginia and Appalachia.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the cultural duality of Mother's Day
- The foremothers and forefathers of Mother's Day
- Anna Jarvis and the Mother's Day movement
- "Honor thy father and thy mother" : the rivalry of Father's Day and Parents' Day
- The American war mothers and a memoir of Mother's Day
- A new Mother's Day : the holiday campaigns of the American Mothers Committee and the Maternity Center Association
- Epilogue : Anna Jarvis's final years and the burden of the Mother's Day movement.