Description
| Product ID: | 9783319441672 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Series: | Genders and Sexualities in History |
| Title: | Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century |
| Authors: | Author: Ciara Meehan, Jennifer Evans |
| Page Count: | 251 |
| Subjects: | History, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book explores how these issues have been constructed, represented and experienced in a range of geographical locations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Crossing the boundary between the pre-modern and modern worlds, the chapters reveal the continuities, similarities and differences in understanding a process that is often, in the popular mind-set, considered to be fundamental and unchanging. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Publisher Name: | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-01-10 |
