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Born southern : childbirth, motherhood, and social networks in the old South / V. Lynn Kennedy.
- Title
- Born southern : childbirth, motherhood, and social networks in the old South / V. Lynn Kennedy.
- Author
- Kennedy, V. Lynn, 1970-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
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- Description
- viii, 277 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In 'Born Southern, ' V. Lynn Kennedy addresses the pivotal roles of birth and motherhood in slaveholding families and communities in the Old South. She assesses the power structures of race, gender, and class -- both in the household and in the public sphere -- and how they functioned to construct a distinct antebellum southern society"--Cover.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Subject
- Sozialgeschichte 1775-1865
- Geschichte 1775-1865
- 1775-1899
- Geschichte 1775-1865
- Sozialgeschichte 1775-1865
- Social Conditions
- Parturition
- Family
- History, 19th Century
- Pregnancy
- Social Conditions > history
- Childbirth > History > Southern States > 19th century
- Pregnancy > History > Southern States > 19th century
- Motherhood > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Mothers > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century
- Children > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century
- Social networks > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Families > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Community life > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Southeastern United States
- Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century
- Southern States > Social life and customs > 1775-1865
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Idealizing birth and motherhood in the Antebellum south -- Conception and pregnancy: southern women's experiences of reproduction -- Childbirth: commonalities and divisions -- Motherhood: infant nurturing and identity -- Fatherhood and the southern patriarchy -- Birth and professional identity in the Antebellum south -- Birth, motherhood, and the sectional crisis.
- ISBN
- 9780801894176 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0801894174 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009013966
- OCLC
- 318641415
- SCSB-12716454
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library