How Long to Read Inventing Maternity

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing Maternity?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Inventing Maternity by Susan C. Greenfield

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and postcolonial theory, Inventing Maternity surveys a wide range of sources--medical texts, political tracts, religious doctrine, poems, novels, slave narratives, conduct books, and cookbooks. The first half of the volume, covering the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries, considers central debates about fetal development, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and childbearing. The second half, covering the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, charts a historical shift to the regulation of reproduction as maternity is increasingly associated with infanticide, population control, poverty, and colonial, national, and racial instability. In her introduction, Greenfield provides a historical overview of early modern interpretations of maternity. She concludes with a consideration of their impact on current debates about reproductive rights and technologies, child custody, and the cycles of poverty.

How long is Inventing Maternity?

Inventing Maternity by Susan C. Greenfield is 290 pages long, and a total of 72,500 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing Maternity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 36 minutes to read Inventing Maternity aloud.

What Reading Level is Inventing Maternity?

Inventing Maternity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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