{"product_id":"laboring-mothers-reproducing-women-and-work-in-the-eighteenth-century-paperback-softback-9780813950280","title":"Laboring Mothers; Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813950280","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLaboring Mothers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEllen Malenas Ledoux (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813950280\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages, 23 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.453 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMotherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With \u003cem\u003eLaboring Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. \u003cem\u003eLaboring Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Navigating the Cult of Motherhood in the Emerging Public Sphere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Speaking for Herself: Privilege and Creating Counterpublics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Staging Motherhood: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Mother-Midwife: Women'\u003cbr\u003es Work and the Phenomenon of Birth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. Spoken For: Mediated Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Compulsory Maternity: Gender Nonconformity in the Military Memoirs of Christian Davies and Hannah Snell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Abortive Attempts: Forced Labor and the Impossibility of Motherhood in \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHe History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III. Spoken About: Marginalized Maternities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Street Life: Picturing Mothers Practicing Itinerant Trades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Mother Magdalen: Penitential Poverty and the Prostitute-Mother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: The Twenty-First-Century Afterlives of Enlightenment Maternity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563738853656,"sku":"9780813950280","price":22.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/laboring-mothers-reproducing-women-and-work-in-the-eighteenth-century-paperback-softback-9780813950280","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}