Laboring Mothers
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5027-3 (ISBN)
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.
Ellen Malenas Ledoux is Associate Professor of English and Communication at Rutgers University–Camden and the author of Social Reform in Gothic Writing: Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764–1834.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Navigating the Cult of Motherhood in the Emerging Public Sphere
Part I. Speaking for Herself: Privilege and Creating Counterpublics
1. Staging Motherhood: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson
2. Mother-Midwife: Women's Work and the Phenomenon of Birth
Part II. Spoken For: Mediated Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion
3. Compulsory Maternity: Gender Nonconformity in the Military Memoirs of Christian Davies and Hannah Snell
4. Abortive Attempts: Forced Labor and the Impossibility of Motherhood in THe History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave
Part III. Spoken About: Marginalized Maternities
5. Street Life: Picturing Mothers Practicing Itinerant Trades
6. Mother Magdalen: Penitential Poverty and the Prostitute-Mother
Afterword: The Twenty-First-Century Afterlives of Enlightenment Maternity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 23 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Charlottesville |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8139-5027-9 / 0813950279 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8139-5027-3 / 9780813950273 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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