Author: John GowerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins. Being the Confessio Amantis
Author: John GowerThe Athenaeum
Author: The Book Buyer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
Subjects of the Day
Author: James SamuelsonPublisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
State Education for the People
Author: English Writers
Author: Henry MorleyPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Torch and Colonial Book Circular
Author: The Nation
Author: Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England
Author: Caroline BicksPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351917668
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending most Englishwomen's births and testifying to their in extremis confessions about paternity, the midwife allegedly controlled the size of one's tongue and genitals at birth and was obligated to perform virginity exams, impotence tests and emergency baptisms. The signs of purity and masculinity, paternity and salvation were inherently open to interpretation, yet early modern culture authorized midwives to generate and announce them. Midwiving Subjects, then, challenges recent studies that read the midwife as a woman whose power was limited to a marginal and unruly birthroom community and instead uncovers the midwife's foundational role, not only in the rituals of reproduction, but in the process of cultural production itself. As a result of recent changes in managed healthcare and of increased attention to uncovering histories of women's experiences, midwives - past and present - are currently a subject of great interest. This book will appeal to readers interested in Shakespeare as well as the history of women and medicine.
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