Birthing the nation :: sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons /

Birthing the Nation analyses two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British state, and the emergence of the man-midwife as the pre-eminent authority over sex and childbirth. By exploring peculiar episodes in the history of the reproducti...

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1. Verfasser: Cody, Lisa Forman
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Schriftenreihe:OUP E-Books.
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Zusammenfassung:Birthing the Nation analyses two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British state, and the emergence of the man-midwife as the pre-eminent authority over sex and childbirth. By exploring peculiar episodes in the history of the reproductive body and the body politic, from stories of pregnant men to rumours that a midwife had foisted a 'suppositious' child on the nation as the Prince of Wales, this original and. provocative work proposes how national, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities were experienced through and symbolized.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 353 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-335) and index.
ISBN:9780191514975
0191514977
9780199268641
0199268649
1280841052
9781280841057
9781429469548
1429469544
9786610841059
6610841055

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