Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fissell, Mary Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Human reproduction > Social aspects > England > History > 17th century.
Human reproduction > Political aspects > England > History > 17th century.
Women > England > Social conditions > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Reproductive Behavior > history
Human Body
Women's Health > history
Pregnant Women > ethnology
Parturition > ethnology
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
Reproduction humaine > Aspect social > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Reproduction humaine > Aspect politique > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Femmes > Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
Medicine.
Human reproduction > Political aspects.
Human reproduction > Social aspects.
Women > Social conditions.
England > ethnology
England.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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