Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

ISBN-13: 9780742533585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 264 str.

Rebecca Kukla

Opis

Examining the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding, this book states that late eighteenth century practices reshaped mothers' bodies. As a result, it is difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.