03513oam 2200721I 450 991081781340332120240912144815.01-4094-6814-31-317-06250-71-317-06249-31-315-60661-51-4094-6813-510.4324/9781315606613(CKB)2670000000421432(EBL)1386945(OCoLC)858762770(SSID)ssj0001002397(PQKBManifestationID)11975464(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001002397(PQKBWorkID)11014941(PQKB)10015257(Au-PeEL)EBL4501080(CaPaEBR)ebr11489627(OCoLC)1018160260(OCoLC)950005656(FINmELB)ELB139475(MiAaPQ)EBC4501080(MiAaPQ)EBC1386945(EXLCZ)99267000000042143220180706e20162014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRitual and conflict the social relations of childbirth in early modern England /Adrian WilsonLondon ;New York :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (270 p.)The history of medicine in contextFirst published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.1-4094-6812-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Legitimate and Bastard Births; Illegitimacy as a Risk; Regimes of Punishment; The Impact of Punishment; The Problem of Maintenance; The Fate of the Single Mother; Desperate Remedies; 2 The Bonds of Marriage; The Solemnisation of Matrimony; Worldly Goods; 'With my body I thee worship'; To Obey and Serve; Enforcing Obedience; The 'Patriarchal Family'?; 3 Gender and Power; Skimmingtons and Shrews; Narratives of Gender-relations; The 'Original' of Masculine Government; Collusion, Resistance, Contests; 4 The Ceremony of Childbirth; A Female RitualThe Midwife's OfficeLying-in; Baptism; The Meaning of the Ceremony; Churching: A Safe Deliverance; Conclusion; Counter-power, Collective Culture, Interests; The Bodily and the Social; Bibliography; IndexThis book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the 'ceremony of childbirth', the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. Focussing on the seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this study offers a new viewpoint on such themes as the patriarchal family, the significance of illegitimacy, and the structHistory of medicine in context.ChildbirthEnglandHistoryFamiliesEnglandHistoryBirth customsEnglandHistoryMedicineEnglandHistoryChildbirthHistory.FamiliesHistory.Birth customsHistory.MedicineHistory.618.2Wilson Adrian1947-,973367MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817813403321Ritual and conflict4009728UNINA