Leslie J Lindenauer

I Could Not Call Her Mother

The Stepmother in American Popular Culture, 1750-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

I Could Not Call Her Mother explores representations of the stepmother in American popular culture from the colonial period to 1960.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780739166819
• ISBN-10: 0739166816
• Artikelnr.: 39219303

Autorenporträt

Leslie J. Lindenauer is associate professor of history at Western Connecticut State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Prologue: A Tale of Two Stepmothers Introduction Chapter
One: 'Unbounded in her Malice': From Witches to Stepmothers in Early
America Chapter Two: 'I Could Not Call Her Mother': The Stepmother and
Middle Class Virtue in Antebellum America Chapter Three: The Substitute
Mother in the Nineteenth Century: Gender, Race, and Parenthood Chapter
Four: The Educated [Step] Mother: The Stepmother and the Science of
Motherhood in the Progressive Era Chapter Five: The Family in the Funhouse
Mirror: Periodicals, Pulps, and Film, 1920-1945 Chapter Six: Tunnel of
Love: Motherhood Composed in the Post-War Era Selected Bibliography