Memorializing motherhood : Anna Jarvis and the struggle for control of Mother's Day / Katharine Lane Antolini.

Author/Creator:

Antolini, Katharine Lane, author.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Morgantown [West Virginia] : University of West Virginia Press, 2014.

Series:

West Virginia and Appalachia.
West Virginia and Appalachia

Format/Description:

Book
219 pages ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Mother's Day.
Jarvis, Anna, 1864-1948.

Contents:

Introduction : the cultural duality of Mother's Day
The foremothers and forefathers of Mother's Day
Anna Jarvis and the Mother's Day movement
"Honor thy father and thy mother" : the rivalry of Father's Day and Parents' Day
The American war mothers and a memoir of Mother's Day
A new Mother's Day : the holiday campaigns of the American Mothers Committee and the Maternity Center Association
Epilogue : Anna Jarvis's final years and the burden of the Mother's Day movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781938228933
1938228936
9781938228964
1938228960
9781938228957
1938228952

OCLC:

878504593

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