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Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 s. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: 2004. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429470483 1429470488 9780191513947 0191513946 1280904267 9781280904264 9780199202706 0199202702 9780199269884 0199269882 9780191533563 0191533564 9786610904266 661090426X |