.My study offers a wider standpoint on women's expertises of mothering as well as a much deeper understanding of exactly how ladies without organic youngsters add to the country and its future.' Mamas of all little ones' One such woman was actually Katharine Bement Davis, the subject of my present research.Born in Buffalo, Nyc, in 1860, Davis belonged to a creation of "brand new ladies" that pursued higher education, developed specialist careers and defended political civil liberties.