Author: Gustave Joseph Witkowski
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Category : Childbirth
Languages : fr
Pages : 618

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Author: Gustave Joseph Witkowski
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ISBN: 9781021670175
Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 0

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Author: Gustave-Joseph Witkowski
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266317685
Category : Drama
Languages : fr
Pages : 604

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Excerpt from Les Accouchements dans les Beaux-Arts, dans la Litterature Et au Theatre C'est assurement sans preoccupation scientifique qu'un vieil ar tiste peint ainsi Adam et Eve sur des panneaux anciens, que pos sede le musee de Bruxelles et dont la copie existe a Saint - Bavon, la cathedrale de Gand mais la un tablier de cuir noir cache la nu dite de nos premiers parents. Ce sont, dit Eugene Fromentin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Dr. Gustave-Joseph-Alphonse Witkowski
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Languages : fr
Pages : 590

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Author: Gustave Joseph Witkowski
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295386314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author: Gustave Jules Witkowski
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Languages : fr
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Author: Gustave Joseph Witkowski
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Languages : en
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Author: Lisa Forman Cody
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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How could the professional triumph of man-midwifery and contemporary tales of pregnant men, rabbit-breeding mothers, and meddling midwives in eighteenth-century Britain help construct the emergence of modern corporate and individual identities? By uncovering long-lost tales and artefacts about sexuality, birth, and popular culture, Lisa Forman Cody argues that Enlightenment Britons understood themselves and their relationship to others through their experiences and beliefs about the reproductive body. Birthing the Nation traces two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British nation, and the emergence of the male expert as the pre-eminent authority over matters of sexual behaviour, reproduction, and childbirth. By taking seriously contemporary caricatures, jokes, and rumours that used gender, birth, and family to make claims about religious, ethnic and national identity, Cody illuminates an entirely new view of the eighteenth-century public sphere as focused on the bodily and the bizarre. In a monarchy arbitrated by its official religion, regulation of reproduction and childbirth was vital to the very stability of British political authority and the coherence of British culture, challenged as it was by Catholicism, the French Revolution, and social change. In the late seventeenth century, the English feared the power of female midwives to control the destiny of the royal family, yet men-midwives and male experts had hardly proved their superiority to manage the successful birth of children. By the mid-eighteenth century, however, male midwives became experts over the domestic world of pregnancy and childbirth, largely replacing female midwives among the middling and elite families. Cody suggests that these new professionals provided a new model for masculine comportment and emergent intimate relationships within the middle-class and elite home. Most surprisingly, Cody has discovered many interconnections between obstetrics and politics, and shows how male experts transformed what had once been the private, feminine domain of birth and midwifery into topics of public importance and universal interest, leading even Adam Smith and Edmund Burke to attend lectures on obstetrical anatomy. This is the first book to place the eighteenth-century shift from female midwives to male midwives as the dominant experts over childbirth in a larger cultural and political context. Cody illuminates how eighteenth-century Britons understood and symbolized political, national, and religious affiliation through the experiences of the body, sex, and birth. In turn, she takes seriously how the political arguments and rhetoric of the age were not always made on disembodied, rational terms, but instead referenced deep cultural beliefs about gender, reproduction, and the family.

Author: Yrjö Hirn
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Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: Nicola F. McDonald
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1903153506
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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"Medieval Obscenities examines the complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive, indecent or morally repugnant - in medieval culture from late antiquity through to the end of the middle ages in western Europe. Its approach is multidisciplinary, its methodologies divergent and it seeks to formulate questions and stimulate debate." "The essays examine topics as diverse as Norse defecation taboos, the Anglo-Saxon sexual idiom, sheela-na-gigs, impotence in the church courts, bare ecclesiastical bottoms, rude sounds and dirty words, as well as the modern reception and representation of the medieval obscene. The volume demonstrates not only the vitality of medieval obscenity, but its centrality to our understanding of medieval life."--Jacket.