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

Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

Ellen Malenas Ledoux

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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 eighte...

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