Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.
2004
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Title
Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.
Created/published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description
viii, 283 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Associated name
Fissell, Mary Elizabeth, author.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-276) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Reforming the body
The womb goes bad
Protesting and preaching
Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the struggle to make women's bodies into knowledge
Culpeper's radical book
Reforming the family and refiguring the body in the English Revolution
The restoration crisis in paternity
Conclusions.
Reforming the body
The womb goes bad
Protesting and preaching
Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the struggle to make women's bodies into knowledge
Culpeper's radical book
Reforming the family and refiguring the body in the English Revolution
The restoration crisis in paternity
Conclusions.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.
Item Details
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GT2465.G7 F57 2004