Inventing maternity : politics, science, and literature, 1650-1865 / edited by Susan C. Greenfield a...
Inventing maternity : politics, science, and literature, 1650-1865 / edited by Susan C. Greenfield a...
Inventing maternity : politics, science, and literature, 1650-1865 / edited by Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash.
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Publisher
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1999.
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N306.8743/78
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Susan C. Greenfield -- 1. Making Up for Losses: The Workings of Gender in William Harvey's de Generatione animalium / Eve Keller -- 2. "Such Is My Bond": Maternity and Economy in Anne Bradstreet's Writing / Kimberly Latta -- 3. Aborting the "Mother Plot": Politics and Generation in Ab...
10. "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 -- 11. Reforming the Body: "Experience" and the Architecture of Imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Ann Gelder.
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Publisher
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1999.
Place of Publication
Kentucky
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented - an image that retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and postcolonial theory, Inventing Mate...
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Inventing maternity : politics, science, and literature, 1650-1865 / edited by Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1999.
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N306.8743/78
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74VvWrmkwKVA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvWrmkwKVA
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ISBN
0813120780 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813120782 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
306.8743
MMS ID
991011989469702626
