Perceptions of pregnancy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jennifer Evans, Ciara Meehan, editors.
• Editors: Evans, Jennifer, 1984-; Meehan, Ciara
• Contents: 1. Introduction; Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan -- PART I: NARRATIVES OF PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND PARENTHOOD. 2. "Breeding" a "little stranger": Managing Uncertainty in Pregnancy in Later Georgian England / Joanne Begiato ; 3. "Bound to be a troublesome time": Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy, Parturition and Pain, c.1867-1920 / Whitney Wood ; 4. Families, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence during the Irish Revolution; Justin Dolar Stover ; 5. Audible Birth, Listening Women: Storytelling the Labouring Body on Mumsnet / Anija Dokter -- PART II: LITERARY PREGNANCIES. 6. Feminine Value and Reproduction in Rowley's The Birth of Merlin / Sanner Garofalo ; 7. "Pregnant Women Gaze at the Precious Thing their Souls are Set on": Perceptions of the Pregnant Body in Early Modern Literature / Sara Read -- 8. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British Fiction / Fran Bigman -- PART III: CONSUMERS, PARTICIPANTS AND PATIENTS. 9. The Birth of the Pregnant Patient-Consumer? Payment, Paternalism and Maternity Hospitals in Early Twentieth-Century England / George Campbell Gosling ; 10. "Closer Together": Durex Condoms and Contraceptive Consumerism in 1970s Britain / Ben Mechen.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 900; History; Pregnancy -- History; Pregnancy in literature; Pregnancy -- Psychological aspects; Pregnant women -- Attitudes -- History; HISTORY / Civilization; HISTORY / Essays; HISTORY / Reference; HISTORY / Social History; Pregnant women -- Attitudes; Pregnancy in literature; Pregnancy; Pregnancy -- Psychological aspects; History -- Social History; Social Science -- Gender Studies; History -- Modern -- General; History -- Europe -- General; Social & cultural history; Gender studies, gender groups; History: earliest times to present day; European history; World history; Social history; Sociology; History, Modern; History -- World; General & world history; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319441689; 3319441671; 9783319441672
• Related ISBNs: 331944168X; 9783319441672
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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