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Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain

Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain

Velasco, Sherry

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General Gender StudiesMen's StudiesSpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0826515169
ISBN13: 9780826515162
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Jun 30 2006
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Using the one-act comedy El parto de Juan Rana (John Frog Gives Birth) as a point of departure, Velasco argues that the figure of the pregnant man in early modern Spanish culture was not merely comic entertainment, but also served an important role as a physical representation of the anxieties about the changing roles of men and women at the time.

Men were increasingly taking over medical duties--especially surrounding childbirth--usually left to women and, as their medical knowledge increased, they became aware of bodies and behaviors--both male and female--that transgressed gender norms. The anxieties about men who acted in ways seen as increasingly womanly (from acting effeminately to participating in homosexual activity) played out in the character of pregnant Juan Rana.

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