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VERNACULAR BODIES
THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND |
| By: |
Mary E. Fissell |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£65.00 |
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£63.05 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199202702 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199202706 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 November, 2006 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the grand events of high politics such as the English Civil War reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy. This book is thefirst account of ordinary people's ideas about reproduction, and offers a new way to understand how common folk experienced the sweeping political changes that characterized early modern England. |
| Synopsis: |
Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, Prayer Books, popular medical manuals - to produce the first account of women's reproductive bodies in early-modern cheap print. Since little was certain about the mysteries of reproduction, the topic lent itself to a rich array of theories. The insides of women's reproductive bodies provided a kind of open interpretive space, a place where many different models of reproductive processes might be plausible. These models were profoundly shaped by cultural concerns; they afforded many ways to discuss and make sense of social, political, and economic changes such as the Protestant Reformation and the Civil War. They gave ordinary people ways of thinking about the changing relations between men and women that characterized these larger social shifts. Fissell offers a new way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power.Where other histories of the body have focused on learned texts and male bodies, this study looks at the small books and pamphlets that ordinary people read and listened to - and provides new ways to understand how such people experienced political conflicts and social change. |
| Illustrations: |
40 in-text black and white half-tones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2005 - Honourable Mention. |
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