Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America /
This new approach to the history of motherhood examines the role the female body played in defining motherhood from the mid-eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century, demonstrating that physical representations or perceptions of the body were crucial to defining motherhood...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This new approach to the history of motherhood examines the role the female body played in defining motherhood from the mid-eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century, demonstrating that physical representations or perceptions of the body were crucial to defining motherhood in different ways both for mothers themselves and for American culture at large. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469637204 1469637200 9781469637211 1469637219 |