Birthing bodies in early modern France: stories of gender and reproduction

Spying at the lying-in: Les Caquets de l'accouchée as birthing event -- Staging the competent midwife: the royal birth stories of François Rabelais and Louise Boursier -- Touching and telling: gendered variations on a gynecological theme -- Assimilation with a vengeance: maternity without women...

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Main Author: Read, Kirk D. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Burlington, VT [u.a.] Ashgate Pub. Co 2011
In:Year: 2011
Reviews:[Rezension von: Read, Kirk D., Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France] (2013) (Semmens, Justine)
Series/Journal:Women and gender in the early modern world
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B French language / Literature / Birth (Motif) / Medicine / Technical literature / History 1500-1700
B French language / Literature / Technical literature / Woman / Birth (Motif) / Gender (Motif) / History 1500-1700
Further subjects:B Gender Identity (France)
B Gender identity in literature
B Medicine in Literature (France)
B Childbirth in literature
B French Literature 17th century History and criticism
B Parturition (France)
B History, 16th Century (France)
B History, 17th Century (France)
B French Literature 16th century History and criticism
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Summary:Spying at the lying-in: Les Caquets de l'accouchée as birthing event -- Staging the competent midwife: the royal birth stories of François Rabelais and Louise Boursier -- Touching and telling: gendered variations on a gynecological theme -- Assimilation with a vengeance: maternity without women in male French Renaissance lyric -- Unstable bodies: birthing monstrosities in early modern France -- Strange fellows in bed: exotic men's postpartum blues -- Postpartum
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0754666328