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Memorializing Motherhood

- Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's Day

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Anna Jarvis organised the first official Mother's Day celebration in West Virginia in 1908 and then spent decades promoting the holiday and defending it from commercialization. This book explores the complicated history of her movement to establish and control Mother's Day, as well as the powerful conceptualization of this day as both a holiday and a cultural representation of motherhood.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781938228933
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 288
  • Udgivet:
  • 20. december 2014
  • Vægt:
  • 333 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 27. november 2024

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Anna Jarvis organised the first official Mother's Day celebration in West Virginia in 1908 and then spent decades promoting the holiday and defending it from commercialization. This book explores the complicated history of her movement to establish and control Mother's Day, as well as the powerful conceptualization of this day as both a holiday and a cultural representation of motherhood.

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