Vernacular bodies
Subtitle: the politics of reproduction in early modern England
By: Mary E. Fissell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Birth customs -- England -- History; Childbirth -- England -- History; Human reproduction -- England -- History; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- England; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- England; Great Britain -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- History; England -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-276) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Reforming the body; title: The womb goes bad; title: Protesting and preaching; title: Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the struggle to make women's bodies into knowledge; title: Culpeper's radical book; title: Reforming the family and refiguring the body in the English Revolution; title: The restoration crisis in paternity; title: Conclusions