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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fissell, Mary Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Reforming the Body; 2. The Womb Goes Bad; 3. Protesting and Preaching; 4. Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the Struggle to Make Women's Bodies into Knowledge; 5. Culpeper's Radical Book; 6. Reforming the Family and Refiguring the Body in the English Revolution; 7. The Restoration Crisis in Paternity; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.