Birthing bodies in early modern France

Kirk D. Read

earliest edition we have, 2011 Ashgate Pub., 2011 205 pages

Women and gender in the early modern world

The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and scientific discourse. In this study, Kirk Read brings together literary and medical texts that represent a range of views...

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Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France edition · 2016 · Taylor & Francis Group · 220 pages · 9781315569420
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France edition · 2016 · Taylor & Francis Group · 220 pages · 9781317174059
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France edition · 2016 · Taylor & Francis Group · 220 pages · 9781138262027
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France edition · 2016 · Taylor & Francis Group · 9781317174073
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France edition · 2016 · Taylor & Francis Group · 9781317174066
Birthing bodies in early modern France edition · 2011 · Ashgate Pub. · 205 pages · 9780754666325

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