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Maternal metaphors : articulating gender, race, and nation at the turn of the century
Reconstructing motherhood : Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and the rhetoric of racial uplift
The romance "plot" : reproducing silence, reinscribing race in The awakening and Summer
Hard labor : Edith Summers Kelley's Weeds and the language of eugenics
Fatal contractions : Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the new Negro mother
Epilogue: representing motherhood at century's end.
Reconstructing motherhood : Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and the rhetoric of racial uplift
The romance "plot" : reproducing silence, reinscribing race in The awakening and Summer
Hard labor : Edith Summers Kelley's Weeds and the language of eugenics
Fatal contractions : Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the new Negro mother
Epilogue: representing motherhood at century's end.