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Reproduction and its discontents in Mexico : childbirth and contraception from 1750 to 1905 /
In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates the central role...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates the central role of reproduction in ideas about female sexuality and virtue, the development of modern Mexico, and the growth of modern medicine in the Latin American context. The story encompasses networks of people in all parts of society, from state and medical authorities to mothers and midwives, husbands and lovers, employers and neighbors. Jaffary focuses on key topics including virginity, conception, contraception and abortion, infanticide, "monstrous" births, and obstetrical medicine. Her approach yields surprising insights into the emergence of modernity in Mexico. Over the course of the nineteenth century, for example, expectations of idealized womanhood and female sexual virtue gained rather than lost importance. In addition, rather than being obliterated by European medical practice, features of pre-Columbian obstetrical knowledge, especially of abortifacients, circulated among the Mexican public throughout the period under study. Jaffary details how, across time, localized contexts shaped the changing history of reproduction, contraception, and maternity |
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| Notas: | Published with the assistance of the Greensboro Women's Fund of the University of North Carolina |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781469629421 1469629429 9781469629414 1469629410 |
| Publicación relacionada: | Portions of chapters 2 and 3 were previously published as "Reconceiving Motherhood: Infanticide and Abortion in Colonial Mexico," Journal of Family History 37, no. 1 (2012): 3-22. Portions of chapter 5 were previously published as "Monstrous Births and Creole Patriotism in Late Colonial Mexico," The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 68, no. 2 (2011): 179-207 |