Birthing the nation [[electronic resource] ] : sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons / / Lisa Forman Cody
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Cody Lisa Forman
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| Titolo: |
Birthing the nation [[electronic resource] ] : sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons / / Lisa Forman Cody
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 941.07 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Politics and government 18th century |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-335) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Birthing the nation |
| ISBN: | 1-383-04119-9 |
| 1-280-84105-2 | |
| 0-19-151497-7 | |
| 1-4294-6954-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785069503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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