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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458511503321

Autore

Fissell Mary Elizabeth

Titolo

Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / / Mary E. Fissell [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 283 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

392.1/2/0942

Soggetti

Birth customs - England - History

Childbirth - England - History

Human reproduction - England - History

Human body - Social aspects - England

Human body - Symbolic aspects - England

Manners & Customs

Gender Studies & Sexuality

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Birth customs - History - England

Childbirth - History - England

Human reproduction - History - England

Women

History, Modern 1601-

Art

Behavior

Reproduction

Health

Pregnancy

History, Early Modern 1451-1600

Culture

Anthropology, Cultural

Persons

Humanities

History

Population Characteristics

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Reproductive Physiological Processes

Reproductive Physiological Phenomena



Psychiatry and Psychology

Named Groups

Health Care

History, 16th Century

Parturition

Women's Health

Reproductive Behavior

Pregnant Women

Human Body

History, 17th Century

Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena

Phenomena and Processes

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Electronic books

Great Britain History

Great Britain Politics and government

England Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.