This giving birth

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"This Giving Birth is a collection of essays which underlines the central place pregnancy and childbirth hold in American women's writing. Embracing three centuries of prose and poetry, the anthology traces the evolution of American maternity literature, exploring the difficulties mothers faced as they struggled to transform themselves from objects into maternal subjects."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: History and criticism,  American literature,  Women authors,  Motherhood in literature,  Childbirth in literature,  Mother and child in literature,  Women and literature,  Pregnancy in literature,  History

Places: United States