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Constructing Motherhood
Nord, Deborah Epstein | August 8, 1994 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "Love and Toil: Motherhood in Out-Cast London, 1870-1918," by Ellen Ross. The book presents a culturally specific history of motherhood. Arguing that the idea of motherhood is determined by historical moment, geography, nationality and class, she evokes with extraordinary richness, authenticity and flair working-class motherhood in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century London. Ross artfully reconstructs the' mother's role as nurse, cook, shrewd and resourceful manager and sparring wife through a variety of sources, among them hospital records, social workers' narratives and childhood memoirs written by these women's offspring.

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LOVE & Toil (Book); BOOKS; ROSS, Ellen; MOTHERHOOD; LONDON (England); ENGLAND
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