From the Womb to the Body Politic : Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia /

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"In Russia during the second half of the eighteenth century, a public conversation emerged that altered perceptions of pregnancy, birth, and early childhood. Children began to be viewed as a national resource, and childbirth heralded new members of the body politic. The exclusively female world...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuxhausen, Anna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions
Children > Social conditions.
Child rearing.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Child Rearing.
Enfants > Russie > Conditions sociales > 18e siecle.
Éducation des enfants > Russie > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Children > Russia > Social conditions > 18th century.
Child rearing > Russia > History > 18th century.
Russia.
Russia > Social conditions > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Meanings of Vospitanie
  • 2. State and Midwifery
  • 3. Mother's Milk
  • 4. Child's Body and the Body Politic
  • 5. Moral Instruction for the Empire's Youth
  • 6. New Girlhood.

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