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The Art of Midwifery
Author | : Hilary Marland |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2005-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134818129 |
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The Art of Midwifery is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work across Europe in the early modern period. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from England, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image. The Art of Midwifery is an excellent resource for students of women's history, social history and medical history.
The Trouble with Ownership
Author | : Jody Greene |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780812202090 |
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Copyright and intellectual property issues are intricately woven into any written work, but the precise nature of this relationship has plagued authors, printers, and booksellers for centuries. What does it mean to own the products of our intellectual labors in our own time? And what was the meaning three centuries ago, when copyright laws were first put into place? Jody Greene argues that while "owning" one's book is critical to the development of modern notions of authorship, studies of authorial property rights have in fact lost sight of the most critical valence of owning in early modern England: that is, owning up to or taking responsibility for one's work. Greene puts forth what she calls a "paranoid theory of copyright," under which literary property rights are a means of state regulation to assign responsibility for printed works, to identify one person who will step forward and claim the work in exchange for the right to reap the benefits of the literary marketplace. Blending research from legal, historical, and literary archives and drawing on the troubled authorial careers of figures such as Roger L'Estrange, Elizabeth Cellier, Daniel Defoe, John Gay, and Alexander Pope, The Trouble with Ownership looks to the literary culture of early modern England to reveal the intimate relationship between proprietary authorship and authorial liability.
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare s England
Author | : Caroline Bicks |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351917667 |
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At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending most Englishwomen's births and testifying to their in extremis confessions about paternity, the midwife allegedly controlled the size of one's tongue and genitals at birth and was obligated to perform virginity exams, impotence tests and emergency baptisms. The signs of purity and masculinity, paternity and salvation were inherently open to interpretation, yet early modern culture authorized midwives to generate and announce them. Midwiving Subjects, then, challenges recent studies that read the midwife as a woman whose power was limited to a marginal and unruly birthroom community and instead uncovers the midwife's foundational role, not only in the rituals of reproduction, but in the process of cultural production itself. As a result of recent changes in managed healthcare and of increased attention to uncovering histories of women's experiences, midwives - past and present - are currently a subject of great interest. This book will appeal to readers interested in Shakespeare as well as the history of women and medicine.
A literary and biographical history or bibliographical dictionary of the English Catholics from 1534
Author | : Joseph Gillow |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Catholics |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590417108 |
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The Afterlife of Pope Joan
Author | : Craig Rustici |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472115448 |
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Investigates representations of the legend of Pope Joan in Early Modern England and their implications on social, political, and religious thought
Birthing the Nation
Author | : Lisa Forman Cody |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2005-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 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 andprovocative work proposes how national, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities were experienced through and symbolized by birth and midwifery.
The One Sex Body on Trial The Classical and Early Modern Evidence
Author | : Helen King |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317022381 |
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By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those on different sides of professional disputes about women's roles in both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation, and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern world beyond the one-sex model.
Elizabeth Cellier
Author | : Mihoko Suzuki |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351941129 |
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Elizabeth Cellier, the scandalous celebrity known as the 'Popish midwife', became the focus of a large number of pamphlets in 1680: accounts of her two trials, her self-vindication, Malice Defeated, her opponent Thomas Dangerfield's rejoinder, and various anonymous satiric attacks against her. She was tried twice: the first time for the more serious charge of treason, and the second for libel, for publishing Malice Defeated. She was acquitted the first time, but found guilty the second, though her punishment was to be pilloried, not executed. She reemerges as the author of tracts on midwifery, proposing to James II the establishment of a professional guild of midwives. Her writings exhibit her remarkable determination to publish her accusations of judicial torture and her advocacy of the licensing of midwives as professional women, as well as exemplifying the importance of the printing press for enabling women to participate in the political public sphere.