Motherhood in the Old South (Revised)

Sally G. McMillen has written an enthralling historical account of the childbearing and -rearing responsibilities that consumed, often literally, the lives of women in the Old South. She explores the social, political, and medical influences of the time--which led women to assume fervently the full responsibility for their "sacred occupation,"--and examines how a woman's maternal role ensured her value within the family and the greater society. Along with intimate details that authenticate her study. McMillen provides telling statistics on the number of women who died in childbirth, the rate of infant mortality, and the incidence of other causes of death to mothers and their children during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Author: Sally G. McMillen
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 03/01/1997
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780807121665
ISBN10: 0807121665
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author
Sally G. McMillen, Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History at Davidson College in North Carolina, is also the author of To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915 and Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South.