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Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England Book

Offers a way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power. This study provides ways to understand how ordinary people experienced political conflicts and social change.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 0199202702
  • 9780199202706
  • Mary E. Fissell
  • 9 November 2006
  • OUP Oxford
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 296
  • New Ed
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