MOTHERS MOTHERHOOD

This collection of essays brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on mothers and motherhood. Motherhood is a significant experience for the overwhelming majority of American women and the work of mothering-in individual families and in communities-has shaped the lives of all Americans. But it is only recently that historians have begun to examine mothers and motherhood as a phenomenon distinct from yet deeply intertwined with family history and women's history.<b>Rima D. Apple</b> is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Human Ecology and Women's Studies Program. She is the author of <i>Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture</i> and <i>Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding 1890-1950</i> and editor of <i>Women Health and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook.</i> <b>Janet Golden</b> is associate professor of history at Rutgers University Camden. She is the author of <i>A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle and coeditor of Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History.</i>