Mothers and Daughters in Nineteenth-century America: The Biosocial Construction of Femininity

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University Press of Kentucky, 1996 - Social Science - 226 pages

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Imperial Motherhood and Its Material Roots
17
The Physical Roots of Ideology
40
Acculturation into True Womanhood
62
Daughters Brave New World
77
The Green Sickness and Daughters Ambivalence
101
A New Feminine Synthesis
114
Notes
137
Selected Bibliography
184
Index
220
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