{"product_id":"9780814207383","title":"Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History","description":"This collection of essays brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on mothers and motherhood. Motherhood is a significant experience for the overwhelming majority of American women, and the work of mothering-in individual families and in communities-has shaped the lives of all Americans. But it is only recently that historians have begun to examine mothers and motherhood as a phenomenon distinct from, yet deeply intertwined with, family history and women's history.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRima D. Apple\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, School of Human Ecology and Women's Studies Program. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eVitamania: Vitamins in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890-1950\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eWomen, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Golden\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle and coeditor of Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007872745712,"sku":"9780814207383","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814207383","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}