Jodi Vandenberg-Daves

Modern Motherhood

An American History

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Produktbeschreibung

How did mothers transform from parents of secondary importance in the colonies to having their multiple and complex roles connected to the well-being of the nation? In the first comprehensive history of motherhood in the US, Jodi Vandenberg-Daves explores how tensions over the maternal role have been part and parcel of the development of American society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9780813563787
• ISBN-10: 081356378X
• Artikelnr.: 41051599

Autorenporträt

 JODI VANDENBERG-DAVES is a historian and professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.  She is editor and co-author of Making History:  A Guide to Historical Research Through the National History Day Program.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One Roots of Modern Motherhood: Early America and the Nineteenth
Century
1 Inventing a New Role for Mothers
2 Contradictions of Moral Motherhood: Slavery, Race, and Reform
3 Medicalizing the Maternal Body
Part Two Modern Mothers: 1890–1940
4 Science, Expertise and Advice to Mothers
5 Grand Designs: Uplifting and Controlling the Mothers
6 Modern Reproduction: The Fit and Unfit Mother
7 Mothers’ Resilience and Adaptation
Part Three Mothers of Invention: World War II to Present
8 The Middle-Class Wife and Mother Box
9 Mother Power and Mother Angst
10 Mothers’ Changing Lives and Continuous Caregiving
Conclusion
Notes
Index