Birthing bodies in early modern France : stories of gender and reproduction /
The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Women and gender in the early modern world
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