Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England
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| Management number | 231943043 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$16.90 | Model Number | 231943043 | ||
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Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the grand events of high politics such as the English Civil War reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy. This book is the first account of ordinary people's ideas about reproduction, and offers a new way to understand how common folk experienced the sweeping political changes that characterized early modern England. Read more
| ASIN | B004MPQY2M |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-0191513947 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 5.6 MB |
| Page Flip | Not Enabled |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 296 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Publication date | January 18, 2007 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Not Enabled |
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