Redefining Motherhood in Early America
by
Nora Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In the second half of the eighteenth century, motherhood came to be viewed as women's most important social role, and the figure of the good mother was celebrated as a moral force in American society. Nora Doyle shows that depictions of motherhood in American culture began to define the ideal mother...