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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Part I: Beginnings: Theory, late antiquity (200-500), and the medieval period (500-1500) ; 1. Conceptualizing pregnancy ; 2. Patterns of meaning: Pregnancy in late antiquity ; 3. Christian procreation according to Augustine ; 4. Pregnancy and abortion in medieval society ; 5. Exceptional bodies: Saints, relics, and dissection ; Part II: The Enlightenment From the Reformation to modernity (1400-1700) ; 6. The Reformation: Protestantism, life, and marriage ; 7. Theories of procreation |
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8. Varieties of scientific truth: Descartes, Deism, and relativism Part III: Modernity 1800-1900 ; 9. The female egg and medical inventions ; 10. The divine conception: Religious reactions to modernity ; 11. Fertility under debate: Race, reason, and religion at the turn of the century ; Part IV: Contemporary debates The twentieth century to the present; 12. Women and the Virgin in the twentieth century: Feminism and modern attitudes towards pregnancy ; 13. Legal abortion: The rise of liberal-democratic ideas of gender equality ; 14. Foetus or child?: Christian reactions to feminism |
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15. Objectification: Women in contemporary culture Afterthoughts ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pregnancy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Pregnancy -- History
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Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Christianity.
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Reproductive History
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Christianity
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Abortion, Legal -- ethics
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Christianity.
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Christianity
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Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Pregnancy
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Pregnancy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Schwangerschaft
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Christentum
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Embryonalentwicklung
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203798898 |
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0203798899 |
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