Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England

Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England /

Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as...

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Main Author: Fissell, Mary Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects:
Human reproduction > Social aspects > England > History > 17th century.
Human reproduction > Political aspects > England > History > 17th century.
Women > England > Social conditions > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Reproductive Behavior > history
Human Body
Women's Health > history
Pregnant Women > ethnology
Parturition > ethnology
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
England > ethnology
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