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Maternal Bodies Redefining Motherhood in Early America

By: Contributor(s): Material type: ArticlePublication details: Chapel Hill, NC The University of North Carolina Press 2018Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469637204
Subject(s): Online resources: 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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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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