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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
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- 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)