Birthing the Nation

Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons

Gebonden Engels 2005 9780199268641
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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 by birth and midwifery.

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ISBN13:9780199268641
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:376
Uitgever:OUP OXFORD
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1DDU Verenigd Koninkrijk, Groot-Brittannië
3ML 18e eeuw, ca. 1700 tot ca. 1799
3MN 19e eeuw, ca. 1800 tot ca. 1899

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