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I Could Not Call Her Mother explores representations of the stepmother in American popular culture from the colonial period to 1960.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Tale of Two Stepmothers
Introduction
Chapter One: 'Unbounded in her Malice': From Witches to Stepmothers in Early America
Chapter Two: 'I Could Not Call Her Mother': The Stepmother and Middle Class Virtue in Antebellum America
Chapter Three: The Substitute Mother in the Nineteenth Century: Gender, Race, and Parenthood
Chapter Four: The Educated [Step] Mother: The Stepmother and the Science of Motherhood in the Progressive Era
Chapter Five: The Family in the Funhouse Mirror: Periodicals, Pulps, and Film, 1920-1945
Chapter Six: Tunnel of Love: Motherhood Composed in the Post-War Era
Selected Bibliography

About the author

Leslie J. Lindenauer is associate professor of history at Western Connecticut State University.

Summary

I Could Not Call Her Mother explores representations of the stepmother in American popular culture from the colonial period to 1960.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Lindenauer, Leslie J Lindenauer, Leslie J. Lindenauer, Lindenauer Leslie J.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2013
• EAN: 9780739166819
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6681-9
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas