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Product Description: Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers a brief profile of the South African writer, and gathers her stories and essays about racism and feminism