Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / / Nora Doyle.

• VerfasserIn: Doyle, Nora,
• Place / Publishing House: Chapel Hill : : The University of North Carolina Press,, [2018]; ©[2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages :); illustrations

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...

Table of Contents

• In search of the maternal body
• The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature
• Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives
• The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother
• Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood
• The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture
• Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture
• In search of the maternal body past and present.