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Charlotte templeandCharlotte's daughter:The reproduction of woman's word
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 18, Heft 2-3, S. 269-286
ISSN: 1547-7045
Inventing maternity: politics, science, and literature, 1650-1865
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 cookbooks. The first half of the volume, covering the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries, consid