Perceptions of pregnancy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / Jennifer Evans, Ciara Meehan, editors.

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[2017]
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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.

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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Physical description

xv, 251 pages ; 22 cm.

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Notes

Product of 3 day conference held in University of Herfordshire summer of 2013.

Contents

1. Introduction; Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan -- PART I: NARRATIVES OF PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND PARENTHOOD. 2. "Breeding" a "little stranger": Managing Uncertainty in Pregnancy in Later Georgian England / Joanne Begiato ; 3. "Bound to be a troublesome time": Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy, Parturition and Pain, c.1867-1920 / Whitney Wood ; 4. Families, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence during the Irish Revolution; Justin Dolar Stover ; 5. Audible Birth, Listening Women: Storytelling the Labouring Body on Mumsnet / Anija Dokter -- PART II: LITERARY PREGNANCIES. 6. Feminine Value and Reproduction in Rowley's The Birth of Merlin / Sanner Garofalo ; 7. "Pregnant Women Gaze at the Precious Thing their Souls are Set on": Perceptions of the Pregnant Body in Early Modern Literature / Sara Read -- 8. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British Fiction / Fran Bigman -- PART III: CONSUMERS, PARTICIPANTS AND PATIENTS. 9. The Birth of the Pregnant Patient-Consumer? Payment, Paternalism and Maternity Hospitals in Early Twentieth-Century England / George Campbell Gosling ; 10. "Closer Together": Durex Condoms and Contraceptive Consumerism in 1970s Britain / Ben Mechen.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

Text in English.

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    History of Medicine
    UND.AA6-9
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  • 9783319441672
  • 3319441671