Birthing the nation : sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons /
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 reproducti...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | OUP E-Books.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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 and. provocative work proposes how national, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities were experienced through and symbolized. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook History Collection EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 353 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-335) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191514975 0191514977 9780199268641 0199268649 1280841052 9781280841057 9781429469548 1429469544 9786610841059 6610841055 |
