Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Genders and Sexualities in History

Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

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Publisher Description

This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book explores how these issues have been constructed, represented and experienced in a range of geographical locations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Crossing the boundary between the pre-modern and modern worlds, the chapters reveal the continuities, similarities and differences in understanding a process that is often, in the popular mind-set, considered to be fundamental and unchanging.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2016
December 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
266
Pages
PUBLISHER
Springer International Publishing
SELLER
Springer Nature B.V.
SIZE
1.7
MB

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