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Author Fissell, Mary Elizabeth.

Title Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
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
Summary 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
Notes Originally published: 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
MEDICAL -- Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
Medicine
Human reproduction -- Political aspects
Human reproduction -- Social aspects
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT England -- ethnology
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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