Maternal Instincts
Visions of Motherhood and Sexuality in Britain, 1875-1925
Published on 6. October 1997
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-333-69772-6 (ISBN)
Description
Maternal Instincts brings together seven new essays exploring conflicting visions of motherhood and sexuality in a period during which both terms were undergoing radical change. Representations of both concepts mutated to accommodate different cultural contexts and individual ideologies. Drawing upon sources including literature, film, medical handbooks, popular science, and legal records, the articles here collected construct a vision of motherhood as alternately idealized, discredited, and fragmented by virtue of its connection with sexualities licit and illicit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-69772-6 (9780333697726)
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Ann Sumner Holmes | Claudia Nelson
Maternal Instincts
Visions of Motherhood and Sexuality in Britain, 1875-1925
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12/1997
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; A.Sumner Holmes & C.Nelson - 'Not a Fit or Proper Person': Annie Besant's Struggle for Child Custody, 1878-79; N.Fix Anderson - 'Fallen Mothers': Maternal Adultery and Child Custody in England, 1886-1925; A.Sumner Holmes - Race Motherhood: Moral Eugenics vs Progressive Eugenics, 1880-1920; G.Robb - Virgin Territory and the Iron Virgin: Engendering the Empire in Bram Stoker's 'The Squaw'; L.Nayder - 'Under the Guidance of a Wise Mother': British Sex Education at the Fin de Siecle; C.Nelson - 'The Mothers of Our Soldiers' Children': Motherhood, Immorality, and the War Baby Scandal 1914-18; S.R.Grayzel - Sexuality, Maternity, and Femininity in Films Exhibited in Britain, 1914-1919; A.Morey - Index