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Author:

Fissell, Mary Elizabeth.

Title:

Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

viii, 283 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Birth customs--England--History.
Childbirth--England--History.
Human reproduction--England--History.
Body, Human--Social aspects--England.
Body, Human--Symbolic aspects--England.
England--Politics and government.
Human Body--England.
Reproductive Behavior--history--England.
History, 16th Century--England.
History, 17th Century--England.
Parturition--ethnology--England.
Pregnant Women--ethnology--England.
Women's Health--history--England.
Great Britain--History
England--Social life and customs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-276) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780199269884 (alk. paper)
0199269882 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56655781

LCCN:

2004023734

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)