Birthing Romans : Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freidin, Anna Bonnell, 1985-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Childbirth--Social aspects--Rome.

Childbirth.

Childbirth--Rome--History.

Pregnancy--Social aspects--Rome.

Pregnancy.

Pregnancy--Rome--History.

Reproductive health--Social aspects--Rome.

Reproductive health.

Reproductive health--Rome--History.

Women--Rome--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Birthing Romans".

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes on Language, Text, and Translation

Introduction: Risk and "the Matter of the Mother"

Situating Sources and Approach

Thinking with "Risk

The Path Ahead

Romans, You, and Me

1. Veturia at Scale: Kinship, Community, and Empire

Six Births, Only One Remains

Positioning Veturia: Community and Status

Empire and Motherhood

Litugena and the Lupa

2. Cornucopia and Rudder: Imagining Generation, Embodying Risk

Landscapes: Cultivation and Extraction

Waterscapes: From Liquid to Human Economies

Fortuna, Risk, and Gender

Beyond Metaphor

3. Bodily and Social Order in Soranus's Gynecology

Who Is Soranus?

Nature, Health, and the Space in Between

From Bodily to Social Order

Managing Crisis

Subjects and Objects of Care

4. Technologies of Hope: Amulets, Materiality, and Affect

Amulets in Action

Quick-Birthers" and Communities of Care

Miniaturization and Uterine Amulets

Uncertain Futures

5. Fate and Fortune: Living with Uncertainty, Understanding Loss

Vows: Hope, Success, and Disappointment

Establishing the Life Course

Birth, Fate, and Fortune

Responsibility and Risk

Conclusion: Traces and Outlines

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780691226293

0691226296

OCLC:

1416896489