Inventing Maternity

" 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 a 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
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 01/07/1999
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.32w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9780813120782

About the Author

Susan C. Greenfield is an 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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