Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367434502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 216 str.

Angus McLaren

Opis

Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England.  This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction: History and Cultural Anthropology

1 The Pleasures of Procreation: Traditional and Biomedical Theories of Conception

2. ‘To Remedy Barrenness and to Promote the Faculty of Generation’: Promoting Fertility, 1500-1800

3. ‘Excellent Recipes to Keep from Bearing Children’: Restricting Fertility, 1500-1800

4. ‘All Manner of Art, to the Help of Drugs and Physicians’: Abortion as Birth Control

5. ‘Converting this Measure of Security into a Crime’: The Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion Laws

Conclusion

Notes

Index

O autorze

Angus McLaren