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03585aam a2200541 i 4500 001 D037BEC2141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 230509t20232023vaua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023020369 020 $a 0813950287 020 $a 9780813950280 020 $a 0813950279 020 $a 9780813950273 035 $a (OCoLC)1381679707 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d EAU $d YDX $d GSU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR448.W67 $b L37 2023 082 00 $a 820.9/35252 $2 23/eng/20230608 100 1 $a Ledoux, Ellen Malenas, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Laboring mothers : $b reproducing women and work in the eighteenth century / $c Ellen Malenas Ledoux. 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 274 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Laboring Mothers merges and expands on two feminist dialogues to create a novel transatlantic cultural history of eighteenth-century working motherhood. Addressing both historical women and representations of a "type," the book demonstrates how ideas about the public sphere and maternity interacted to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Navigating the cult of motherhood in the emerging public sphere -- Speaking for herself: privilege and creating counterpublics. Staging motherhood: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson -- Mother-midwife: women's work and the phenomenon of birth -- Spoken for: mediated maternity and the politics of exclusion. Compulsory maternity: gender nonconformity in the military memoirs of Christian Davies and Hannah Snell -- Abortive attempts: forced labor and the impossibility of motherhood in The history of Mary Prince: a West Indian slave -- Spoken about: marginalized maternities -- Street life: picturing mothers practicing itinerant trades -- Mother Magdalen: penitential poverty and the prostitute-mother -- Afterword: The twenty-first-century afterlives of Enlightenment maternity. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a Working mothers in literature. 650 0 $a English literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Working mothers $z England $x Social conditions $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Working mothers $z England $x Economic conditions $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Public sphere $z England $x History $y 18th century. 650 7 $a English literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a English literature $x Women authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912218 650 7 $a Public sphere $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02010609 650 7 $a Working mothers $x Social conditions $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180663 651 7 $a England $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Literary criticism $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ledoux, Ellen Malenas, 1975- $t Laboring mothers $d Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023 $z 9780813950297 $w (DLC) 2023020370 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517010409.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D037BEC2141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search