Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America by Rebecca Jo Plant
English | Mar. 30, 2010 | ISBN: 0226670201, 0226670228 | 264 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | Mar. 30, 2010 | ISBN: 0226670201, 0226670228 | 264 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
In the early twentieth century, Americans often waxed lyrical about “Mother Love,” signaling a conception of motherhood as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in self-sacrifice and infused with social and political meaning. By the 1940s, the idealization of motherhood had waned, and the nation’s mothers found themselves blamed for a host of societal and psychological ills.