Perfect motherhood [electronic resource] : science and childrearing in America / Rima D. Apple.

By: Apple, Rima D. (Rima Dombrow), 1944-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006Description: xii, 209 p. : illSubject(s): Mothers -- United States -- History | Motherhood -- United States -- History | Physician and patient -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.874/30973 LOC classification: HQ759 | .A58 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Redefining motherhood -- "Follow the lead of physicians": Motherhood in the late nineteenth century -- "Mamma's scientific--she knows all the laws": Motherhood in the early twentieth century -- "Follow my instructions exactly": Experts to mothers in the interwar period and during World War II -- "The modern way": Mothers, circa 1920-1945 -- "Now I know that an authority has the same opinion as mine": Motherhood in the postwar period -- "Use it to guide, not to dictate": Motherhood in the late twentieth century -- Conclusion: "I wanted to do it right".
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-194) and index.

Redefining motherhood -- "Follow the lead of physicians": Motherhood in the late nineteenth century -- "Mamma's scientific--she knows all the laws": Motherhood in the early twentieth century -- "Follow my instructions exactly": Experts to mothers in the interwar period and during World War II -- "The modern way": Mothers, circa 1920-1945 -- "Now I know that an authority has the same opinion as mine": Motherhood in the postwar period -- "Use it to guide, not to dictate": Motherhood in the late twentieth century -- Conclusion: "I wanted to do it right".

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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