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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797756803321

Autore

Crawford Patricia (Patricia M.)

Titolo

Blood, bodies, and families in early modern England / / Patricia Crawford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-87685-7

1-315-83843-5

1-317-87686-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Women And Men In History

Disciplina

306.85094209/03

Soggetti

Families - England - History - 16th century

Families - England - History - 17th century

Sex role - England - History

Motherhood - England - History

Paternity - England - History

Blood - Social aspects

Human body - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2004 by Pearson Education Ltd."--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Attitudes to menstruation in seventeenth-century England -- 2. Sexual knowledge in England, 1500-1750 -- 3. The construction and experience of maternity in seventeenth-century England -- 4. Blood and paternity -- 5. 'The sucking child' : adult attitudes to child care in the first year of life in seventeenth-century England -- 6. Katharine and Philip Henry and their Children : a case study in family ideology -- 7. Sibling relationships.