TY  - BOOK
AU  - Theriot,Nancy M.
TI  - Mothers and daughters in nineteenth-century America: the biosocial construction of femininity 
SN  - 9780813158204
AV  - HQ1418 .T53 2015 
U1  - 305.42/0973305.420973 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Femininity
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Middle class women
KW  - United States
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Women
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Féminité
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Femmes de la classe moyenne
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Mères et filles
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Santé et hygiène
KW  - Aspect sociologique
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Introduction: Investigating Identities and Experience from a Generational Perspective; 1 ""Imperial Motherhood"" and Its Material Roots; 2 The Physical Roots of Ideology; 3 Acculturation into ""True Womanhood""; 4 Daughters' Brave New World; 5 The ""Green Sickness"" and Daughters' Ambivalence; 6 A New Feminine Synthesis; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - The feminine script of early nineteenth century centered on women's role as patient, long-suffering mothers. By mid-century, however, their daughters faced a world very different in social and economic options and in the physical experiences surrounding their bodies. In this groundbreaking study, Nancy Theriot turns to social and medical history, developmental psychology, and feminist theory to explain the fundamental shift in women's concepts of femininity and gender identity during the course of the century -- from an ideal suffering womanhood to emphasis on female control of physical self
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