title: Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America
author:  Sara Dubow 
description: <br>"Dubow offers up an important contribution to the field, forcing the reader to contend both with why the fetus is such a fascinating topic for investigation and the deeper social tensions expressed in each conversation about the objects."--<em>Journal of the History of Medicine</em>
zlib_text: Maternal Bodies
  
  
  Maternal Bodies
  
  Redefining Motherhood in Early America
  
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  NORA DOYLE
  
  The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
  
  
  This book was published with the assistance of the Greensboro Women’s Fund of
  the University of North Carolina Press.
  
  Founding Contributors: Linda Arnold Carlisle, Sally Schindel Cone, Anne
  Faircloth, Bonnie McElveen Hunter, Linda Bullard Jennings, Janice J. Kerley
  (in honor of Margaret Supplee Smith), Nancy Rouzer May, and Betty Hughes
  Nichols.
  
  © 2018 The University of North Carolina Press
  
  All rights reserved
  
  Set in Charis and Lato by Westchester Publishing Services
  
  Manufactured in the United States of America
  
  The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press
  Initiative since 2003.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Names: Doyle, Nora, author.
  
  Title: Maternal bodies : redefining motherhood in early America / Nora Doyle.
  
  Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina 