Ritual and conflict [electronic resource] : the social relations of childbirth in early modern England / Adrian Wilson.

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 r...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Wilson, Adrian, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Series:History of medicine in context.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Legitimate and bastard births
  • 2. The bonds of marriage
  • 3. Gender and power
  • 4. The ceremony of childbirth.