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Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women's personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions of motherhood emerged in the eighteenth century, before this period there were many different articulations of motherhood through which women negotiated hierarchical relationships, power struggles and alliances. While the individual experiences were unique and depended upon the positionality of race and class, the complexities of being a mother were universal. The wide variety of written and visual documents included in this volume highlight women's voices in the first person along with more subtle references to motherhood as well as silences. This collection broadens our understanding of the complexities of motherhood, addressing the pressures of becoming a mother, miscarriage, the acts of giving birth and lactation and the ordeals of raising children.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction - Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Díaz
Defining Maternity
1. Debra Blumenthal, "'Services for which I expect to be compensated:' Mothering as a Salaried Labor of Love in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon"
2. Grace E. Coolidge, "Noble Maternity in Castile, 1400-1650"
3. Mercedes Llorente, "Maternity in the Portraits of Spanish Habsburg Queens: Mariana of Habsburg"
4. Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, "The Stains of the Mother: Indian Mothers and Mestizo Children in Early Colonial Peru"
Becoming Pregnant and Giving Birth
5. Carolina Alarcón, "'Urinating on Lettuce and Throwing Your Hands Up:' Infertility in Early Modern Spain"
6. Vanda Anastácio, "Motherhood and Gender: When the Queen has only Daughters. The Case of Victoria de Bourbon (1718-81)"
7. Emily Kuffner, "'Para retener la criatura:' Miscarriage in Early Modern Spain"
8. Montserrat Pérez Toribio, "Maternal Bodies and Fertile Letters: The Politics of Motherhood Networking in Estefania de Requesens' Correspondence"
Daily Living Motherhood
9. Catherine Hall-van den Elsen, "Motherhood and the Early Modern Woman Artist"
10. Yolopattli Hernández Torres, "Casa de Niños Expósitos: The Substitute Mother in Colonial Mexico"
11. Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha, "Cruel or Prudent Mothers? Troubled Relationships, Disobedient Daughters, and Social Risk (Eighteenth-century Barcelona)"
Afterwords - Emilie Bergmann
Index
List of Contributors
