Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England

ISBN-13: 9780415633376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 248 str.

Valerie Fildes

Opis

This text met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women's studies, and the history of the family, whose work would not normally appear in one volume.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Construction and Experience of Maternity in Seventeenth-century England  2. Embarking on a Rough Passage: the Experience of Pregnancy in Early-modern Society  3. The Ceremony of Childbirth and its Interpretation  4. Puritan Attitudes Towards Childhood Discipline, 1560-1634  5. Wet Nursing and Child Care in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, 1595-1726  6. Maternal Feelings Reassessed: Child Abandonment and Neglect in London and Westminster, 1550-1800  7. Conjugal Love and the Flight from Marriage: Poetry as a Source for the History of Women and the Family

O autorze

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