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HON 498 Fall 2025 Moon Library Instruction (Aiken): Sophie
Library Catalog search: "cult of domesticity"
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"Just a Housewife" : the Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America.
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Call Number: ebook(1989) and print (1987) HQ1410 .M38 1987ISBN: 9780190281656Publication Date: 1989The emergence of a new ideology -- The golden age of domesticity -- Domestic feminism and the world outside the home -- Toward an industrialized home -- Darwinism and domesticity: the impact of evolutionary theory on the status of the home -- The housewife and the home economist -- Domesticity and the culture of consumption -- Naming the problem -- Afterword -- Appendix.
Library Catalog search: su: Motherhood United States History
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Perfect Motherhood: science and childrearing in America
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780813539980Publication Date: 2006-05-23Redefining motherhood -- "Follow the lead of physicians": Motherhood in the late nineteenth century -- "Mamma's scientific--she knows all the laws": Motherhood in the early twentieth century -- "Follow my instructions exactly": Experts to mothers in the interwar period and during World War II -- "The modern way": Mothers, circa 1920-1945 -- "Now I know that an authority has the same opinion as mine": Motherhood in the postwar period -- "Use it to guide, not to dictate": Motherhood in the late twentieth century -- Conclusion: "I wanted to do it right." -
Modern Motherhood
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780813563800Publication Date: 2014-05-26pt. I Roots of Modern Motherhood: Early America and the Nineteenth Century -- 1. Inventing a New Role for Mothers -- 2. Contradictions of Moral Motherhood: Slavery, Race, and Reform -- 3. Medicalizing the Maternal Body -- pt. II Modern Mothers: 1890 -- 1940 -- 4. Science, Expertise, and Advice to Mothers -- 5. Grand Designs: Uplifting and Controlling the Mothers -- 6. Modern Reproduction: The Fit and Unfit Mother -- 7. Mothers' Resilience and Adaptation in Modern America -- pt. III Mothers of Invention: World War II to the Present -- 8. The Middle-Class Wife-and-Mother Box -- 9. Mother Power and Mother Angst -- 10. Mothers' Changing Lives and Continuous Caregiving.
