Perceptions of pregnancy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century /

This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Evans, Jennifer, 1984- (Editor ), Meehan, Ciara (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Colección:Genders and sexualities in history.
Temas:
Pregnancy > History.
Pregnancy in literature.
Pregnancy > Psychological aspects.
Pregnant women > Attitudes > History.
Grossesse > Histoire.
Grossesse dans la littérature.
Grossesse > Aspect psychologique.
Femmes enceintes > Attitudes > Histoire.
Social & cultural history.
Gender studies, gender groups.
History: earliest times to present day.
European history.
General & world history.
HISTORY > Civilization.
HISTORY > Essays.
HISTORY > Reference.
HISTORY > Social History.
Pregnant women > Attitudes
Pregnancy in literature
Pregnancy
Pregnancy > Psychological aspects
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction; Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan
  • PART I: NARRATIVES OF PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND PARENTHOOD. 2. "Breeding" a "little stranger": Managing Uncertainty in Pregnancy in Later Georgian England / Joanne Begiato ; 3. "Bound to be a troublesome time": Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy, Parturition and Pain, c.1867-1920 / Whitney Wood ; 4. Families, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence during the Irish Revolution; Justin Dolar Stover ; 5. Audible Birth, Listening Women: Storytelling the Labouring Body on Mumsnet / Anija Dokter
  • PART II: LITERARY PREGNANCIES. 6. Feminine Value and Reproduction in Rowley's The Birth of Merlin / Sanner Garofalo ; 7. "Pregnant Women Gaze at the Precious Thing their Souls are Set on": Perceptions of the Pregnant Body in Early Modern Literature / Sara Read
  • 8. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British Fiction / Fran Bigman
  • PART III: CONSUMERS, PARTICIPANTS AND PATIENTS. 9. The Birth of the Pregnant Patient-Consumer? Payment, Paternalism and Maternity Hospitals in Early Twentieth-Century England / George Campbell Gosling ; 10. "Closer Together": Durex Condoms and Contraceptive Consumerism in 1970s Britain / Ben Mechen.

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