Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-319) and index.
Contents:
Inventing a new role for mothers -- Contradictions of moral motherhood : slavery, race, and reform -- Medicalizing the maternal body -- Science, expertise, and advice to mothers -- Grand designs : uplifting and controlling the mothers -- Modern reproduction : the fit and unfit mother -- Mothers' resilience and adaptation in modern America -- The middle-class wife-and-mother box -- Mother power and mother angst -- Mothers' changing lives and continuous caregiving.
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