Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China / Yi-Li Wu.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010], ©2010.

xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Late imperial fuke and the literate medical tradition -- Amateur as arbiter : popular fuke manuals in the Qing -- Function and structure in the female body -- An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage -- "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth -- To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health -- Epilogue: body, gender, and medical legitimacy.