Birthing bodies in early modern France : stories of gender and reproduction / Kirk D. Read.

  • Read, Kirk D
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[2011], ©2011
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Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xiii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Spying at the lying-in: Les Caquets de l'accouchée as birthing event -- Staging the competent midwife: the royal birth stories of François Rabelais and Louise Boursier -- Touching and telling: gendered variations on a gynecological theme -- Assimilation with a vengeance: maternity without women in male French Renaissance lyric -- Unstable bodies: birthing monstrosities in early modern France -- Strange fellows in bed: exotic men's postpartum blues -- Postpartum.

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  • 9780754666325
  • 0754666328
  • 9781409424994
  • 1409424995