Format:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781317062493
Series Statement:
The History of Medicine in Context
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Legitimate and Bastard Births -- Illegitimacy as a Risk -- Regimes of Punishment -- The Impact of Punishment -- The Problem of Maintenance -- The Fate of the Single Mother -- Desperate Remedies -- 2 The Bonds of Marriage -- The Solemnisation of Matrimony -- Worldly Goods -- âWith my body I thee worshipâ -- To Obey and Serve -- Enforcing Obedience -- The âPatriarchal Familyâ? -- 3 Gender and Power -- Skimmingtons and Shrews -- Narratives of Gender-relations -- The âOriginalâ of Masculine Government -- Collusion, Resistance, Contests -- 4 The Ceremony of Childbirth -- A Female Ritual -- The Midwifeâs Office -- Lying-in -- Baptism -- The Meaning of the Ceremony -- Churching: A Safe Deliverance -- Conclusion -- Counter-power, Collective Culture, Interests -- The Bodily and the Social -- Bibliography
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409468127
Additional Edition:
Print version Wilson, Adrian Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England London : Taylor and Francis,c2016 ISBN 9781409468127
Language:
English
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