Inventing Maternity by Greenfield, Susan C.

Inventing Maternity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813120782)

Vendor: Susan C. Greenfield
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Format: Hardcover
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Inventing Maternity by Greenfield, Susan C.

Inventing Maternity

$35.00
Inventing Maternity by Greenfield, Susan C.

Inventing Maternity

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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" Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image 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 Maternity surveys a wide range of sources- medical texts, political tracts, religious doctrine, poems, novels, slave narratives, conduct books, and cookbook

Author: Susan C. Greenfield
ISBN-10: 0813120780
ISBN-13: 9780813120782
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 01/07/1999
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.32w x 1.08d
By Susan C. Greenfield
By Susan C. Greenfield
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Susan C. Greenfield is associate professor of English at Fordham University. Carol Barash is the author of English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714 and co-editor of Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England.

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