Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England (The History of Medicine in Context)

by Adrian Wilson (Author), Adrian Wilson (Author), Adrian Wilson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $202.75

  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 ritual through which women collectively controlled this.