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Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England

Author
Fissell, Mary Elizabeth.
Title
Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.
Format
Book
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description
viii, 283 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
URL
<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023734.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004023734-d.html
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-276) and index. Water damage.
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Reforming the body
  • The womb goes bad
  • Protesting and preaching
  • Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the struggle to make women's bodies into knowledge
  • Culpeper's radical book
  • Reforming the family and refiguring the body in the English Revolution
  • The restoration crisis in paternity
  • Conclusions.
Kinsey subjects
Birth customs--England. Pregnancy. Social customs--England. Childbirth. Reproduction. Women history.
ISBN
0199269882 (alk. paper) 9780199269884 (alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
183.1 F57 v4 2004
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute