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Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Evans, Jennifer
Meehan, Ciara

Hardcover

Series: Genders and Sexualities in History

General Gender StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3319441671
ISBN13: 9783319441672
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 10 2017
Pages: 251
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.25 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
Introduction; Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan.- PART I: NARRATIVES OF PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND PARENTHOOD.- 1. 'Breeding' a 'little stranger': Managing Uncertainty in Pregnancy in Late Georgian England; Joanne Begiato.- 2. 'Bound to be a troublesome time': Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy, Parturition and Pain, 1867-1920; Whitney Wood.- 3. Families, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence during the Irish Revolution; Justin Dolar Stover.- 4. Audible Birth, Listening Women: Storytelling the Labouring Body on Mumsnet.com; Anija Dokter.- PART II: LITERARY PREGNANCIES.- 5. Feminine Value and Reproduction in Rowley's The Birth of Merlin; Sanner Garofalo.- 6. 'Pregnant Women Gaze at the Precious Thing their Souls are Set on': Perceptions of the Pregnant Body in Early Modern Literature; Sara Read.- 7. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Motherhood in 1960s British Fiction; Fran Bigman.- PART III: CONSUMERS, PARTICIPANTS AND PATIENTS.- 8. The Birth of the Pregnant Patient-Consumer? Payment, Paternalism and Maternity Hospitals in Early Twentieth-Century England; George Campbell Gosling.- 9. 'Closer Together': Durex Condoms and Contraceptive Consumerism in 1970s Britain; Ben Mechen.

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