Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism: Motherhood Under Duress in the United States, 1920-1960

ISBN-13: 9781032369662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

USA) Trigg Mary (Rutgers University

Opis

The book aims to broaden understanding of the diverse positions and meanings of motherhood by investigating understudied and marginalized mothers (rural itinerant, African American, and Irish Catholic American) between 1920 and 1960.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1 Alarm Clocks in the Soul: Scientific Motherhood, Temporal Regulation, and Antimaternalism, 2 A Pro-Maternal Narrative and Archive: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs of Rural Mothers, 3 Reclaiming Maternity: African-American Mothers and Maternal Grief as a Counter-Narrative, 4 Herself: Irish-American Catholic Mothers, Maternal Power, and Antimaternalism, 5 Antimaternalism and the Work of Care: How is this Showing Up Today?

O autorze

Mary K. Trigg is Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University