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Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism: Motherhood Under Duress in the United States, 1920-1960

Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism: Motherhood Under Duress in the United States, 1920-1960

Trigg, Mary

Hardcover

Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Motherhood

General Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1032369663
ISBN13: 9781032369662
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 24 2023
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book aims to broaden understanding of the diverse positions and meanings of motherhood by investigating understudied and marginalized mothers (rural itinerant, African American, and Irish Catholic American) between 1920 and 1960.

Fuelled by anxieties around feminism, a perception of men's loss of status and masculinity, racial tensions, and fears about immigration, antimaternalism discourse blamed mothers for a wide range of social ills in the first half of the 20th Century. Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism considers the ideas, practices, and depictions of antimaternalism, and the ways that mothers responded. Religion, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration status are all analysed as factors shaping maternal experience. The book develops the historical context of American motherhood between 1920 and 1960, examining how changing ideas - scientific motherhood, time efficiency, devaluation of domesticity, racial and religious bias - influenced the construction and experiences of motherhood.

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