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Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons
ISBN: 9780199541409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How could the professional triumph of man-midwifery and contemporary tales of pregnant men, rabbit-breeding mothers, and meddling midwives in eighteenth-century Britain help construct the emergence of modern corporate and individual identities? By uncovering long-lost tales and artifacts about sexuality, birth, and popular culture, Lisa Forman Cody argues that Enlightenment Britons understood themselves and their relationship to others through their experiences and beliefs about the reproductive body. Birthing the Nation traces two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British...
How could the professional triumph of man-midwifery and contemporary tales of pregnant men, rabbit-breeding mothers, and meddling midwives in eighteen...
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304,54 zł |
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
ISBN: 9781421409511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Volume 42 explores material culture, the visual arts, literature, opera, and the stage during the long eighteenth century in France, Britain, the Americas, and China. These essays examine encounters between Europe and the Americas, the Orient and the Occident, as well as the challenges of translation. Several authors analyze the role of gender in literature and life, exploring themes of intimacy, interiority, authority, and knowledge. TABLE OF CONTENTS:1. Christopher M. S. Johns, -Erotic Spirituality and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris: The Curious History of Antonio... Volume 42 explores material culture, the visual arts, literature, opera, and the stage during the long eighteenth century in France, Britain, the A... |
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215,40 zł |
Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons
ISBN: 9780199268641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How could the professional triumph of man-midwifery and contemporary tales of pregnant men, rabbit-breeding mothers, and meddling midwives in eighteenth-century Britain help construct the emergence of modern corporate and individual identities? By uncovering long-lost tales and artefacts about sexuality, birth, and popular culture, Lisa Forman Cody argues that Enlightenment Britons understood themselves and their relationship to others through their experiences and beliefs about the reproductive body. Birthing the Nation traces two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British...
How could the professional triumph of man-midwifery and contemporary tales of pregnant men, rabbit-breeding mothers, and meddling midwives in eighteen...
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938,31 zł |
Writings on Medicine: Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 4
ISBN: 9780754602149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The four works in this volume are the only known exclusively medical texts written by women during the Restoration. Their importance is denoted by their dramatic challenge to the generalisations once made about medical practice and female healers in this period. Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book was the first and only midwifery manual to be printed in English before 1700, and continued to be influential into the early eighteenth century. The principal focus of Elizabeth Cellier's To Dr.--- (1688) is the attempt to legitimate the notion of a female corporation of midwives through historical...
The four works in this volume are the only known exclusively medical texts written by women during the Restoration. Their importance is denoted by th...
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482,65 zł |
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
ISBN: 9781421405629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume's essays focus on the relationships between texts and readers, images and viewers, performance and audience during the Enlightenment in France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and North America. The essays range from exploring the effects of rococo space on religious experience to analyzing the transmission of texts across national and temporal boundaries. Contributors and Contents: Michael Yonan, The Wieskirche: Movement, Perception, and Salvation in the Bavarian Rococo Sandro Jung, Thomas Stothard, Illustration, and the Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas,... This volume's essays focus on the relationships between texts and readers, images and viewers, performance and audience during the Enlightenment in... |
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215,40 zł |