Laboring Mothers (eBook)

Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

Ellen Malenas Ledoux (Autor)

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2023
288 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5029-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.Popular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. Laboring Mothers demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b&w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 18th-Century Britain • abortive attempts • Agency • Archive • A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery • bad mothers • British colonies • Celebrity • Christian Davies • compulsory maternity • cross-dressed female soldiers • cult of motherhood • Domestic work • Elizabeth Nihell • England • Enlightenment • enslaved women • Families • female masculinity • gender non-conformity • George Cruikshank • good mothers • Hannah Snell • Intersectional feminism • Itinerant Traders • It's My Party • James Gillray • Jennifer Lopez • Marcellus Laroon • marginalized women • Martha Mears • Mary Robinson • Mary Wollstonecraft • Medical History • midwives • poor women • Pregnancy • Prostitutes • Public sphere • Race • reproductive lives • Robert Walker • Sarah Siddons • Sarah Stone • Self-representation • sexually stigmatized • Social Class • Social Performance • street hawkers • supermoms • systemic inequality • theatrical careers • The Cryes of London • The Female Soldier • The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House • the history of mary prince • The History of Miss Sally Johnson • The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies • The Rules and Regulations of the Magdalen Charity • Thomas Rowlandson • West Indies • William Craig • William Holland • woman warrior • Working Class • working-class motherhood • work-life balance
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5029-5 / 0813950295
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5029-7 / 9780813950297