ISBN:
1280904267
,
9781280904264
,
9780191533563
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (viii, 283 p)
,
ill
Paralleltitel:
Print version Fissell, Mary E Vernacular Bodies : The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England
DDC:
392.1/2/0942
Schlagwort(e):
Childbirth History
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Human reproduction History
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Human body Social aspects
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Human body Symbolic aspects
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Birth customs History
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Human reproduction ; Social aspects ; England ; History ; 17th century
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Electronic books
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Great Britain History
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Great Britain Politics and government
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England Social life and customs
Kurzfassung:
Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the grand events of high politics such as the English Civil War reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy. This book is the first account of ordinary people's ideas about reproduction, and offers a new way to understand how common folk experienced the sw
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-276) and index
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