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Mom [electronic resource] : the transformation of motherhood in modern America / Rebecca Jo Plant.

by Plant, Rebecca Jo, 1968-

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Wylie, Philip, 1902-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Friedan, Betty -- Criticism and interpretation.

Motherhood -- United States.

Motherhood in popular culture -- United States.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=A40443EF-1268-4F14-96D4-F353D9923789 This title is available online; click here to access

9780226670232 (electronic bk.)

0226670236 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (xii, 250 p.)

Debunking the all-American mom: Philip Wylie's momism critique -- Mothers of the nation: patriotic maternalism and its critics -- Pathologizing mother love: mental health and maternal affectivity -- Banishing the suffering mother: the quest for painless childbirth -- Mother-blaming and The feminine mystique: Betty Friedan and her readers.

In the early twentieth-century United States, to speak of "mother love" was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixty years later, mainstream views of motherhood had been transformed, and Mother found herself blamed for a wide array of social and psychological ills. In Mom, Rebecca Jo Plant traces this important shift through several key moments in American history and popular culture. Exploring such topics as maternal caregiving, childbirth, and women's politic.

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