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Autore |
Cody Lisa Forman |
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Birthing the nation [[electronic resource] ] : sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons / / Lisa Forman Cody |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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1-383-04119-9 |
1-280-84105-2 |
0-19-151497-7 |
1-4294-6954-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human reproduction - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Human reproduction - Political aspects - Great Britain |
Nationalism - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Childbirth - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Midwives - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Sex role - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Childbirth - Political aspects - Great Britain |
Great Britain Politics and government 18th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-335) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of figures; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Mothers, Midwives, and Mysteries; 3. Abortions, Witches, and Catholics: Reproduction and Revolution; 4. 'Is not your Lordship with child too?': Pregnant Fathers and Fathers of Science; 5. Imagining Mothers; 6. Breeding Scottish Obstetrics in Dr Smellie's London; 7. Revolutionary Bodies in the Britain of George III; 8. Sex, Science, and Race; 9. The State Takes Charge: Conceived, Consummated, Counted; 10. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Birthing the Nation analyses two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British state, and the emergence of the man-midwife as the pre-eminent authority over sex and childbirth. By exploring peculiar episodes in the |
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history of the reproductive body and the body politic, from stories of pregnant men to rumours that a midwife had foisted a 'suppositious' child on the nation as the Prince of Wales, this original and. provocative work proposes how national, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities were experienced through and symbolized |
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