ISBN:
0199269882
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 283 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
392.1/2/0942
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Politik
;
Birth customs History
;
Childbirth History
;
Human reproduction History
;
Body, Human Social aspects
;
Body, Human Symbolic aspects
;
England Politics and government
;
Geburt
;
Sexualität
;
Körper
;
Frau
;
Fortpflanzung
;
Schwangerschaft
;
Großbritannien
;
Great Britain History
;
England Social life and customs
;
England
;
England
;
Schwangerschaft
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
England
;
Frau
;
Sexualität
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
England
;
Frau
;
Geburt
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
England
;
Frau
;
Körper
;
Fortpflanzung
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
Abstract:
Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources to recover how ordinary men and women understood the process of reproduction. Because the human body was often used as a metaphor for social relations, the events of high politics reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Reforming the body -- The womb goes bad -- Protesting and preaching -- Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the struggle to make women's bodies into knowledge -- Culpeper's radical book -- Reforming the family and refiguring the body in the English Revolution -- The restoration crisis in paternity.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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