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Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fissell, Mary Elizabeth, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birth customs--England--History.
- Birth customs.
- Childbirth--England--History.
- Childbirth.
- Human reproduction--England--History.
- Human reproduction.
- Human body--Social aspects--England.
- Human body.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects--England.
- England--Politics and government.
- England.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- England--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 283 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources to recover how ordinary men and women understood the process of reproduction. Because the human body was often used as a metaphor for social relations, the events of high politics reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Reforming the body
- The womb goes bad
- Protesting and preaching
- Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the struggle to make women's bodies into knowledge
- Culpeper's radical book
- Reforming the family and refiguring the body in the English Revolution
- The restoration crisis in paternity
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-276) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04130-X
- OCLC:
- 9525500
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