Title Modern motherhood : an American history / Jodi Vandenberg-Daves.

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New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	pt. I 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 II 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 in Modern America -- part III Mothers of Invention: World War II to the Present -- 8. The Middle-Class Wife-and-Mother Box -- 9. Mother Power and Mother Angst -- 10. Mothers' Changing Lives and Continuous Caregiving.
Subject	Families -- United States -- History.
	Motherhood -- United States -- History.
	Mothers -- United States -- History.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Motherhood. (OCoLC)fst01026907
	Mothers. (OCoLC)fst01026940
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Women -- Latin America -- History -- Sources.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Vandenberg-Daves, Jodi. Modern motherhood 9780813563794 (DLC) 2013027195 (OCoLC)853287207
ISBN	9780813563800 (electronic bk.)
	0813563801 (electronic bk.)

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