Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century by LeDoux, Ellen Malenas
Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century by LeDoux, Ellen Malenas

Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are...
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Author: Ellen Malenas LeDoux
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Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century by LeDoux, Ellen Malenas

Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

$318.96
Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century by LeDoux, Ellen Malenas

Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

$318.96
Author: Ellen Malenas LeDoux
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Motherhood 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 Laboring Mothers, 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.

Popular 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. Laboring Mothers 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.



Author: Ellen Malenas LeDoux
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 11/10/2023
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780813950273

About the Author

Ellen Malenas Ledoux is Associate Professor of English and Communication at Rutgers University-Camden and the author of Social Reform in Gothic Writing: Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764-1834.


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