Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England

Vernacular bodies the politics of reproduction in early modern England

Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to produce the first account of women's reproductive bodies in early-modern cheap print. Since little w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fissell, Mary Elizabeth (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press 2006
Materias:
Nacimiento > Inglaterra > s. XVI-XVII > Usos y costumbres.
Fecundidad humana > Inglaterra > Historia > s. XVI-XVII.
Cuerpo humano > Aspectos sociales > Inglaterra.
Inglaterra > Costumbres y sociedad.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Conclusions.

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