Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain

by SherryVelasco (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $67.70

  Using the one-act comedy El parto de Juan Rana ( John Frog Gives Birth ) as a point of departure, this title argues that the figure of the pregnant man in modern Spanish culture was not merely comic entertainment, but served an important role as a physical representation of the anxieties about the changing roles of men and women at the time.