Mom : the transformation of motherhood in modern America

Mom : the transformation of motherhood in modern America / Rebecca Jo Plant.

In the early twentieth-century United States, to speak of "mother love" was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixty years later, mainstream views of mothe...

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Main Author: Plant, Rebecca Jo, 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Wylie, Philip, > 1902-1971 > Criticism and interpretation.
Friedan, Betty > Criticism and interpretation.
Friedan, Betty
Wylie, Philip, > 1902-1971
Motherhood > United States.
Motherhood in popular culture > United States.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
Motherhood
Motherhood in popular culture
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Debunking the all-American mom: Philip Wylie's momism critique
  • Mothers of the nation: patriotic maternalism and its critics
  • Pathologizing mother love: mental health and maternal affectivity
  • Banishing the suffering mother: the quest for painless childbirth
  • Mother-blaming and The feminine mystique: Betty Friedan and her readers.

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