Ritual and Conflict
The Social Relations of Childberth in Early Modern England
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Word Count
67,500 words, Guess
Page Count
270 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28762231M
- ISBN-139781409468127
- OCLC Control Number858762770
- OCLC Control Number841516570
- OCLC Control Number891807931
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2013015420
Classifications
- LCCRG518.G7W55 2013
Description
This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the 'ceremony of childbirth', the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. Focussing on the seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this study offers a new viewpoint on such themes as the patriarchal family, the significance of illegitimacy, and the structuring of gender-relations in the period.--
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