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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Main Author: Doyle, Nora (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC The University of North Carolina Press 2018
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