Mothering the race : women's narratives of reproduction, 1890-1930 / Allison Berg.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2002.

x, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-173) and index.

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.